2021-03-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
社论板块Bouncing back
重整旗鼓How to make a social safety net for the post-covid world
如何构建疫情后时代的社会保障系统After the Depression and the second world war, vot

2021-03-19 所属栏目:美语听力材料

Gunmen kidnapped children and teachers from an elementary school in northwestern Nigeria on Monday. It's the latest in a series of attacks on educational institutions. And they

2021-03-19 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Hi, I'm Carl Azuz for CNN 10. It looks like a standoff between the Facebook technology company and the nation of Australia is coming to an end. What h

2021-03-19 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

Bad news and good news related to coronavirus cases in America. First the number of deaths in which COVID-19 was cited as a factor has reached 500,000 since last winter. The number

2021-03-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
Brown-headed cowbirds are obligate brood parasites. That means they lay their eggs in the nests of othe

2021-03-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The European Union's drug control agency says the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is safe.The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday announced its findings from an examination o

2021-03-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Additional booster vaccines against the coronavirus will be needed in the future, said a leading British scientist who is studying the virus. A booster is an extra shot that increa

2021-03-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In Japan, some workers who regularly drink beer at the end of the day are giving their livers a rest and turning to beer that is free, or nearly free, of alcohol.Because of the cor

2021-03-19 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Amy Skinner watched as workers began building tiny colorful structures across from a park where she sometimes slept in North Hollywood.Tiny homes are being used for housing in cost

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In a recent Everyday Grammar, we briefly talked about a video that makes fun of the difference between two terms: y'all and you guys.It goes like this:"Hey you guys, what are you

2021-03-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Senate has confirmed New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland as interior secretary. It makes her the first Native American to lead a cabinet department. Democrats and tribal

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Rules in other industries often lack consistency. Early in the pandemic, cruise ships helped to spread the disease. The Saga cruise line, which targets elderly travellers, is now i

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Indeed, judged by the criteria of 2013, emerging markets today look far less fragile than they once were. Inflation is lower (only 1.4% in Indonesia) and "exchange-rate valuations

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Las Vegas Sands, founded by the late Sheldon Adelson, reached an agreement to sell the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas to private-equity and property investors for more than $6bn. The

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Of that she already had plenty. She showed it most memorably on the day in 1963 when she went into Shalimar’s barber shop in Harlem and asked to have her sleek bob cut away. For a

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bartleby A shot in the dark
巴托比职场专栏——无根据的瞎猜How far should firms go to get their staff vaccinated?
为了让员工接种疫苗，企业还要走多远？

2021-03-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet what is possible in public health is not always so easy in national security. Western intelligence agencies must contend with laws governing how private data may be gathered an

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Obituary Cicely Tyson
讣告 西西莉·泰森Beauty and defiance
佳人绝世而独立Cicely Tyson, actress, died on January 28th, aged 96
女演员西西莉·泰森于1月28日去世，享年96岁Slowly, wi

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The world this week
本周国际要闻Business
商业板块The American Senate began debate on Joe Biden’s $1.9trn stimulus bill, after it passed the House of Representatives. Mr Biden w

2021-03-18 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Imagine discovering that a painting on your wall is a long-lost masterpiece. In two recent cases, the story centers on Jacob Lawrence. Lydia Gordon of the Peabody Es

2021-03-18 所属栏目:美语听力材料

There has been a dramatic increase in migrants attempting to cross the southern border into the U.S. — more than 100,000 just last month. The vast majority are being turned back t

2021-03-18 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

Airlines in several countries have decided to keep certain Boeing passenger planes on the ground.
Boeing is among the largest aerospace companies in the world. One of its models c

2021-03-18 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Wayt Gibbs.
I'm a big fan of sushi and ceviche, so I was alarmed to see the headline on a recent news release from

2021-03-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In science fiction movies, there are many examples of spaceships racing through space at the speed of light or faster. But is faster-than-light travel possible?A new research paper

2021-03-18 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Israeli archaeologists said they have discovered about 80 new pieces of ancient writings known as Dead Sea Scrolls in a desert cave south of Jerusalem.The writings are the first ne