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2019年经济学人 太空行走第一人阿里克谢·列昂诺夫(4)
Six years later, during a brief thaw in the cold war, he found himself training in Houston with Americans, larking around in a Stetson like a cowboy. On the joint Soyuz-Apollo Test Project that followed he and Tom Stafford bear-hugged in the docking
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--用委婉语掩盖性暴力会导致更恶劣后果(2)
Or consider the English word. Coming from Latin rapere, its oldest sense involves neither sex nor bodily harm; it means to take something by force (as in the adjective, rapacious). This represents the attitude of many centuries in which rape was cons
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2019年经济学人 约翰逊语言专栏--用委婉语掩盖性暴力会导致更恶劣后果(3)
But there are unintended consequences. Sexual assault is usually defined (for example, by American and British authorities) as sexual contact without consent. This means that the gamut runs widely, from groping to the most savage rapes. That can make
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2019年经济学人 美国贸易政策(1)
You would need a magic wand to bring back manufacturing jobs, said President Donald Trump on November 12th, 11月12日，唐纳德特朗普总统引用前政府官员的话表示， quoting someone from a past administration. Well, we brought them ba
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2019年经济学人 血腥学者易卜拉欣·阿瓦徳(1)
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (born Ibrahim Awad), leader of Islamic State, blew himself up on October 26th, aged 48 阿布巴克尔巴格达迪(本名易卜拉欣阿瓦徳)是伊斯兰国组织领袖，他于10月26日自爆结束了自己的生命，享年4
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2019年经济学人 美国贸易政策(2)
Plans are being hatched but have not yet been executed, he says. 他表示，计划正在酝酿中，但尚未付诸实施。 Plants in Mexico owned by international carmakers have the most changes to make. 国际汽车制造商在墨西哥的工厂要
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 阿里巴巴重返港股 中美谈判再添变数 沙特阿美正式开
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 Disneys streaming video service went live, the latest in a lengthening line of challengers to Netflixs dominance of the market. The trove of programming on Disney+ not only includes its archive of anim
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2019年经济学人 一周要闻 中国敬业欲收购英钢 特斯拉柏林建厂 波音或明年复飞
The California Trucking Association launched a legal challenge against the states new law giving wage and benefit protections to independent contractors. The rules are aimed at workers in the gig economy, though they will also apply to caretakers, ma
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2019年经济学人 高科技橄榄球(2)
高科技橄榄球(2) The sensors are attached to transmitters that communicate with receivers at the edges of the playing field. 传感器安装在发射器上，发射器与赛场边缘的接收器进行通信。 By monitoring the time it takes for
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2019年经济学人 血腥学者易卜拉欣·阿瓦徳(2)
Now that IS had territorythe city of Raqqa, too, had fallen to himhe declared a Sunni caliphate and himself Caliph Ibrahim, the most pious, the warrior, the reviver, who would take Baghdad and lead his mujahideen as far as Rome. He not only spoke, bu
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2019年经济学人 6500亿美元的狂欢--美国娱乐业投资热潮(1)
来源于《社论》版块 The $650bn binge 6500亿美元的狂欢 Creative 创造力 Creative destruction in the entertainment business has had blockbuster results 娱乐业的创造性破坏取得了惊人的成果 America has seen some spectacula
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2019年经济学人 熊彼特企业管理专栏--零售杂货店电商之争(1)
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Schumpeter 熊彼特企业管理专栏 Tomato catch-up 番茄，快点走，再不快点就变成番茄酱了 Ocado wages a grocery war against Amazon, Walmart and Alibaba Ocado与亚马逊、沃尔玛和阿里巴巴
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2019年经济学人 6500亿美元的狂欢--美国娱乐业投资热潮(2)
The entertainment business is fast-moving by its very nature. It has few tangible assets, it relies on technology to distribute its wares and its customers crave novelty. The emergence of sound in the 1920s cemented Hollywood as the centre of the glo
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2019年经济学人 血腥学者易卜拉欣·阿瓦徳(3)
His nom de guerre, coined earlier, anticipated this day: Abu Bakr, the first caliph after Muhammad's death; al-Baghdadi, the Abbasids' capital. The caliphate itself was ordained by Allah, the ultimate means for the ever-bickering Arabs to uniteas a h
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2019年经济学人 嘉信理财和德美利证券(2)
Schwab could not go on charging $4.95 a pop. Still less could TD Ameritrade keep asking $6.95. 嘉信理财不能再继续收取4.95美元的费用了。德美利证券也不收取6.95美元的没用了。 Admittedly, both have more strings to their
