2021-01-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Meanwhile, Ping An's approach is being put to the test. When covid-19 first struck in January the company was a year into restructuring its life-insurance business. That involv

2021-01-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

When large financial firms do develop systems in-house, they jealously guard them from competitors. Mr Ma has turned that notion on its head by transforming Ping An's technolog

2021-01-05 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

Judy Woodruff: In a world these days of Zoom and FaceTime, conversation might be more critical than ever to find connection. Here is a Brief But Spectacular take from renowned desi

2021-01-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In the end, prejudice against accents betrays bad manners and small minds, and says more about the listener than about the put-upon speaker. But often it is itself a sign of poor e

2021-01-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

And French leaders face more than just condescension. When Jean Castex, who has a notable south-western accent, became prime minister, reactions were predictably patronising. But s

2021-01-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

First, having established them as seedlings, they starved their charges of phosphorus until signs of deficiency such as yellow leaves appeared. Then they scattered desert dust on t

2021-01-04 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Evolution and agriculture
进化和农业Good catch
丰收Some crops can absorb phosphorus from dust
有些作物能从尘土中吸收磷Wheat was among the first plants to be domesticated and is

2021-01-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
"It came to our attention a few years ago that there were fraudulent whiskeys on the market."
Gordon Coo

2021-01-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
If you've ever been on a fishing boat, you've probably seen flocks of birds following

2021-01-04 所属栏目:科学美国人

Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Mirsky. And here's a short piece from the January 2020 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches from the

2020-12-31 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Johnson
约翰逊专栏Eiffel power
埃菲尔力量The rights and wrongs of a French bid to ban accent discrimination
法国禁止口音歧视的是非曲直In the early 1790s Fr

2020-12-31 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

AMNA NAWAZ: And now to the Christmas Day bombing that rocked Nashville, Tennessee. We now know the who. The why remains a mystery. Stephanie Sy has our report. STEPHANIE SY: Invest

2020-12-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School at Muroc, now Edwards air force base, which he ran from 1962, offered a state-of-the-art simulator that covered every stage of a space flig

2020-12-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

At 74,700 feet (22,800 metres), and at 2.44 Mach speed, it began to roll uncontrollably, then spin upside down. Completely disoriented, battered by plus and minus g-loads, he remem

2020-12-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

JD Health’s IPO was also a success. The health-care division of JD.com, one of China’s big E-commerce companies, raised $3.5bn in Hong Kong, in the biggest flotation of shares on

2020-12-30 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

AMNA NAWAZ: This year, your holiday table is probably looking very different from last. Maybe there's fewer people at the table. Maybe there's an iPad or a laptop, so loved

2020-12-30 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.
"That's right, woodchuck-chuckers. It's Groundhog Day! Get up and chuck that hog out there!"
F

2020-12-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Three things distinguish Ping An's operating model from that of a standard insurer: its vast platform of services; its approach towards its hundreds of millions of users and cu

2020-12-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Business
经济America’s competition regulator filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that it bought WhatsApp and Instagram, two soc

2020-12-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Facebook lawsuits centre on its acquisitions. The firm maintained its monopoly in personal social-networking by systematically buying up potential competitors, both contend—no

2020-12-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Tabaré Vázquez, who was twice Uruguay’s president, died. A doctor turned left-wing politician, Mr Vázquez’s victory in 2004 ended more than 160 yea

2020-12-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周国际要闻Politics
政治Britain began the world’s first vaccination programme for covid-19 using a fully tested vaccine. Thousands of people, mostly the ver

2020-12-25 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
The animal kingdom is a noisy place. There's bird song...
(CLIP: Bird whistle)
...chorus

2020-12-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Big tech and antitrust
大型科技企业与反垄断Battle commences
战争打响A formidable alliance takes on Facebook. Investors don’t seem to care
一个强大的联盟与Face

2020-12-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Ping An is also becoming better at the lucrative business of "cross-selling", or selling customers more products from other parts of the group, which increases income without incur