2020-10-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Almost all this labour, he discovered in Haryana—which was a hotbed of it—was indentured servitude. The workers were landless Dalits or their children, forced to borrow to pay fo

2020-10-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Tanzania barred Tundu Lissu, the opposition leader, from campaigning for president for seven days, claiming that his speeches criticising the government were “unethical&rdquo

2020-10-23 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Donald Trump’s doctors were keeping a close eye on their patient, after the 74-year-old president checked out of hospital just three

2020-10-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Swami Agnivesh (Vepa Shyam Rao), champion of India’s indentured labourers, died on September 11th, aged 80.
印度契约劳工斗士斯瓦米·阿涅维什（韦帕·施拉姆·拉奥）于9月11日逝世，享

2020-10-23 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was the Roman subway system. Underground work is s

2020-10-22 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: When outbreaks of COVID-19 at meat processing plants in the U.S. slowed production, American wholesalers turned to foreign beef suppliers. Beef exporters in the smal

2020-10-22 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
(CLIP: Loud bird call)
That incredibly loud song soaring over the quieter birds in the Amazon rain

2020-10-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mr Falk acknowledges that medieval science was not the same as the modern kind. Astronomy was the most important discipline, but astrology was respectable too, and it shaded into m

2020-10-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺板块Book review
书评The history of science
科学史Sleeping giants
沉睡的巨人The Light Ages. By Seb Falk.
《光明的时代》。作者：塞伯·福克In the 11th century, n

2020-10-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Microsoft (whose own topological machines are still at an early stage of development) offers access via Azure, its cloud-computing service,
微软（该公司自己的拓扑量子计算机仍处于开

2020-10-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

She may be too late. Attendance was declining before covid-19. To distinguish a night at the movies from a night with Netflix, cinemas built snazzy multiplexes with waiters ferryin

2020-10-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

America's presidential election
美国大选Braced for impact
准备就绪How investors are hedging against the risk of post-election chaos
投资者如何对冲选举后混乱的风险Election ye

2020-10-19 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

Judy Woodruff: As the war over the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh continues between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the push for a cessation of hostilities accelerated this we

2020-10-19 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Colorful corals may be the stars of the reef—but they can't thrive without a huge support

2020-10-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Cinemas
电影院Curtains
无法摆脱的困境Audiences may be ready to return. Will they have anything to watch?
观众们可能已经准备好回归电影院了。那他们有什么影片可看

2020-10-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Jeremy O'Brien, one of the firm's founders, says that, in partnership with GlobalFoundries, a big contract chipmaker,
该公司创始人之一杰里米·奥布莱恩表示，在大型合同芯片制

2020-10-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Labour markets in Europe
欧洲的劳动力市场Pain relief
已止痛The successes of furlough schemes—and their side effects
休假计划的成功及其负面影响So impressive is Germany's tra

2020-10-16 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Eliene Augenbraun.
Our microbiomes—the tiny organisms that live on us and in us—can influence our health. And a rece

2020-10-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

“It multiplies,” said Mrs Frey enigmatically, as she walked away. Though she knocked on “over 3,000 doors” in 2016, she did not seem used to such pushback. Modern campaigns aim

2020-10-15 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Florida is one of the biggest prizes on Election Day. It is also one of those prized swing states that has voted for the candidate who has won the presidential elect

2020-10-15 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
In addition to giant crustaceans and creepy anglerfish, the deep oceans hide a vital piece of

2020-10-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Northampton County, of which it is the capital, was one of three in Pennsylvania that flipped to the Republicans in 2016, giving Mr Trump the state by a whisker. True to form, the

2020-10-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

For most of the field's history, quantum-computing research has been backed by governments or big information-technology firms.
纵观该领域的历史，量子计算研究大部分时间都是政府

2020-10-14 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 November 2019 issue of the magazine, in the section called Advances: Dispatches f

2020-10-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Lexington
莱克星顿专栏The battle in miniature
选举之战的缩影A small town in Pennsylvania depicts a microcosm of the election—and how Americans are handlin