2021-01-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Now he was pumped for information which his vestigial loyalty to the service forbade him to speak of, as well as for solutions to mysteries that he knew nothing about. ("Who killed

2021-01-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

At the end of the avenue lay a games field, with a goalpost askew and a few boys playing. Their bicycles were sprawled by the path. Across the field stood a small green tin pavilio

2021-01-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In a presentation to investors the studio announced a blitz of new content for its Disney+ streaming service: ten “Star Wars” series, ten more based on Marvel comic books, 15 oth

2021-01-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business 商业版块Cinema and streaming 大荧幕和流媒体Big bets on the small screen 大举押注小荧幕Hollywood is pivoting to home entertainment 好莱坞正在转向家庭娱乐领域If any industry

2021-01-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The pandemic was a boon for some. Once the shock of lockdowns faded, stockmarkets climbed towards new records, in part because of the soaring share prices of tech firms. Zoom meeti

2021-01-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this year
本年全球要闻回顾By late January cases were widely reported in Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. Markets were rattled, fearing disruption to global supply cha

2021-01-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet this effort to stamp norms onto a covert and chaotic arena of competition has been unsuccessful. For one thing, it is not always simple to define what is “honourable”, in Mr

2021-01-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The campaign showed “top-tier operational tradecraft”, says FireEye, a cyber-security firm that was itself a victim. Orion’s ubiquity explains why so many organisations were aff

2021-01-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块Cyber-security
网络安全Bear hunt
猎熊Hackers have vaulted into the heart of America’s government
黑客已经潜入美国政府的核心On september 25th Russia’s pr

2021-01-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On the avenue his own pace slowed. Instinctively he began to practise tradecraft, or writing craft. He became observant, guarded, watchful, keeping to the edge of the path where th

2021-01-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

John le Carre, (born David Cornwell) master of the spy novel, died on December 12th, aged 89
约翰·勒卡尔（出生时叫大卫·康威尔）间谍小说大师，于12月12日去世，享年89岁The house in

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

2021-01-04 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

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

2020-12-30 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

2020-12-28 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