2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Anyone who has experimented as a child with maize starch and water knows about shear-thickening.
任何在童年做过玉米淀粉加水实验的人都知道剪切增稠。A mixture of these substances is

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Big firms such as Accell and Giant of Taiwan compete with sporty brands such as America’s Cannondale and affordable city rides from QWIC. Brompton, a British maker of fancy foldin

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Bicycles
自行车Electric shock
电动自行车冲击Two wheels good. Two wheels plus a motor better
两个轮子的自行车很好。在两个轮子的自行车上加上发动机，变成电动自行车

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

As the enterprise grew, he directed everything. A national public-work scheme provided small wages, but enough. Each day the villagers would gather round him to get their tools and

2020-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Banks' earnings reports for the second quarter, released over the past two weeks,
在过去两周发布的银行第二季度财报表明，suggest that the take-up of the schemes may well have r

2020-08-13 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: Yesterday marked 75 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The attack shocked the world, but it would be another year before Americans would get firstha

2020-08-13 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
"This year's prize is about a rechargeable world. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today de

2020-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The police usually benefit from a natural dividend in the autumn. Homicide rates tend to fall in September as the weather cools and teenagers head back to classrooms. But Mr Herrma

2020-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There are some exceptions to this decline. Non-residential burglaries spiked in early June, coinciding with the peak of the George Floyd protests, when looting of retail stores was

2020-08-12 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

Judy Woodruff: Negotiations on more COVID financial relief have stalled in Washington tonight amid signs that the economic recovery has stalled as the virus surges again. According

2020-08-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Soon after India went into a strict lockdown in March, its central bank allowed borrowers to put off loan repayments for three months.
三月，印度实施严格封锁不久后，其中央银行允许

2020-08-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Crime statistics
犯罪统计Few signs of a surge
几乎无激增迹象Despite a recent uptick in violence, fears that America is experiencing a serious crime wave ar

2020-08-11 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: The economy is getting back some of the jobs lost during the start of the pandemic and the shutdowns that followed. But, as we reported at the top of the program, th

2020-08-11 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
"This year's Nobel laureates in physics have painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more w

2020-08-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Tundu Lissu, an opposition politician in Tanzania who was shot 16 times in 2017 but survived, returned from exile in Belgium, hoping to run for president. Mr Lissu has also been ar

2020-08-08 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There were fears in Europe of a resurgence of COVID-19. Catalonia returned to a form of lockdown. Britain announced that people arriv

2020-08-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He showed off Cserdi, where the population was three-quarters Gypsy, to prove that it could be as ordinary as anywhere else. But he knew it was not. The stereotype that most non-Gy

2020-08-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The results shocked Dr Morono,
结果让Morono博士感到震惊，"At first I was sceptical, but we found that up to 99.1% of the microbes in sediment deposited 101.5m years ago were still

2020-08-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The emotion that is most likely to lure workers back to the office is paranoia. The pandemic may have caused managers to realise who is indispensable and who isn’t. Bartleby reali

2020-08-08 所属栏目:英语访谈节目

JUDY WOODRUFF: President Trump held a press briefing at the White House again tonight. Our Yamiche Alcindor was there. and she joins me now. So, Yamiche, first of all, we understan

2020-08-08 所属栏目:科学美国人

This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.
"The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology o

2020-08-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

One who doesn’t is her childhood friend Jon John, who gives her a room of her own in which to write. A gay man who wants to make theatre costumes but instead endures hard graft an

2020-08-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business 商业版块Bartleby
巴托比专栏Back on the chain gang
回到流水线Employees and employers both face trade-offs as offices reopen
随着办公室重新开放，雇员和雇主都面临着权衡。R

2020-08-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Far from the life-sustaining light of the sun, the deep sea floor appears barren and desolate.
远离能够维持生命的阳光，深海海底显得贫瘠荒凉。Its appearance, however, belies a thri

2020-08-06 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Icelandic fiction
冰岛小说Lines of beauty
美丽的线条Miss Iceland.
冰岛小姐By Audur Ava Olafsdottir.
作者：奥杜尔·阿瓦·奥拉夫