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2019年经济学人 太空旅行(1)
It looked for all the world like something that might have graced the cover of a 1950s comic book. 它看起来就像是装饰着20世纪50年代漫画书的封面一样。 On September 28th, on a warm Texas evening, Elon Musk, the boss of SpaceX, a
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 哈佛歧视案胜诉 英国公布新脱欧方案 约翰逊麻烦缠身
一周要闻 哈佛歧视案胜诉 英国公布新脱欧方案 约翰逊麻烦缠身 In a closely watched case, a judge ruled that Harvard does not discriminate against Asian-Americans in its applications process, finding that it passes constitutiona
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2019年经济学人 太空旅行(2)
Besides designing a new spaceship and booster, 除了设计新的飞船和助推器外， SpaceX's engineers are busy working on a new, more efficient engine to power them. SpaceX的工程师也忙于研制一种新的、更高效的发动机来为它们
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2019年经济学人 哭泣的白手帕(4)
Then in 1992, when she was almost 70, God suddenly set her life-task before her. Three elderly Korean war-rape victims spoke out on television and inspired her to do the same. If she backed them up, adding her European voice to theirs, they might tog
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--政治对语言的影响(1)
Books arts 来源于《图书和艺术》版块 Johnson 约翰逊语言板块 Sticks and stones 棍棒和石头 The polarisation of politics is producing a new lexicon of insults 政治的两极化正在产生一系列新的侮辱性词汇 Think of t
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--政治对语言的影响(2)
The vocabulary that causes offence today would puzzle those who roared at bloody. Consider an insult that occupied the British press for several days in December 2018. Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour opposition, seemed to mouth stupid woman a
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2019年经济学人 正在消失的冰岛冰川(1)
Okjokull, in western Iceland, was officially declared dead in 2014, aged around 800 冰岛西部的奥乔屈尔冰川于2014年正式宣布死亡，享年约800岁 It was not the smallest glacier around, nor the most remote. You could see it from out
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2019年经济学人 金融界的计算机革命(1)
Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Masters of the universe 宇宙主宰者 Forget Gordon Gekko. Computers increasingly call the shots in financial markets 忘记葛登盖柯。越来越多在金融市场上发号施令的是计算机 The job of capi
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--政治对语言的影响(3)
The evolution of insults is the subject of Philip Goodens new book, Bad Words. He recounts in one neat reversal the turn in the history of invective. The Sun, a British tabloid, was once in the habit of outing gay people, and even publicly defended i
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2019年经济学人 欧洲货币政策:安抚鹰派(1)
Nothing inspires German newspaper illustrators like the European Central Bank's monetary policies. 没有什么能像欧洲央行（ECB）的货币政策一样激发德国报纸插画家的创作灵感。 Bond-buying is represented as a tsunami of ca
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2019年经济学人 金融界的计算机革命(2)
In the past decade computers have graduated to running portfolios. Exchange-traded funds (ETFS) and mutual funds automatically track indices of shares and bonds. Last month these vehicles had $4.3trn invested in American equities, exceeding the sums
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2019年经济学人 熊彼特企业管理专栏--企业和工会(1)
Then there is Boeing itself. The 737, the first of which took to the air half a century ago, has been a huge seller for the company the 10,000th rolled off the production line in 2018. In March Goldman Sachs, a bank, estimated that the max may accoun
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 美欧贸易摩擦加剧 瑞信爆监视高管丑闻 富国银行任命
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 A 15-year dispute over subsidies in the aerospace industry came to a partial climax when the World Trade Organisation ruled that America could levy $7.5bn-worth of tariffs on exports from the European
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2019年经济学人 金融界的计算机革命(3)
Until now the rise of computers has democratised finance by cutting costs. A typical ETF charges 0.1% a year, compared with perhaps 1% for an active fund. You can buy ETFs on your phone. An ongoing price war means the cost of trading has collapsed, a
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2019年经济学人 波多黎各的破产(1)
波多黎各的破产(1) Are you and your client here just to defend the integrity of the Constitution? 你和你的委托人只是为了维护宪法的完整性吗？ asked Samuel Alito, an associate justice of the America's Supreme Court, on Octobe
