2020-11-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块German business
德国企业Pride and prejudice
傲慢与偏见Many guest workers become guest entrepreneurs
许多外籍劳工成为外籍企业家To the consternation of Ugur Sahi

2020-11-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Yet the equivocations now portend a Republican Party that remains firmly under the grips of post-truth Trumpism. This may be a rational strategy in the short term to ensure the pre

2020-11-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The price tag on BBVA's American franchise amounts to about 30 times its projected earnings in 2021, according to analysts at UBS, a bank. That is a lot for a unit that has lon

2020-11-26 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Retail banks
零售银行Bye bye America
拜拜美国The sale of BBVA's American unit to PNC may set off a wave of mergers
将BBVA的美国分部出售给PNC可能会掀起一股并购浪潮In May PNC,

2020-11-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A rabbi was, after all, a teacher. He was a clear, kind one, still with a touch of East End about him, his father had sold shmatters, clothes, in Petticoat Lane, and when he was ma

2020-11-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The stalled transition is also a test for the president’s party. Never-Trump Republicans had hoped the president would be dealt a stinging electoral rebuke, forcing a reckoning am

2020-11-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Rabbi Lord Sacks, chief rabbi, broadcaster and moral philosopher, died on November 7th, aged 72. Every morning he could, Jonathan Sacks pulled on his tracksuit and went out jogging

2020-11-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

United States
美国版块The White House
白宫To the bitter end
奋战到底President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede is harming America
总统唐纳德·特朗福拒不承认败选，美国危矣“St

2020-11-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

“Trying desperately to free art from the dead weight of the real world,” he later wrote, “I took refuge in the form of the square.” Malevich painted many squares of different c

2020-11-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The myth of Orpheus, who descends into the blackness of the underworld to bring his dead wife, Eurydice, back to the land of the living, has inspired musicians, poets and painters.

2020-11-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

With COVID-19 soaring in some areas, England went back into a national lockdown. Non-essential shops, pubs, restaurants, gyms and other public places will close until December 2nd,

2020-11-23 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America’s presidential election was closer than the polls had suggested. In the electoral college Joe Biden won Michigan and Wiscons

2020-11-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The latest attempt to plumb these depths comes from Anish Kapoor, a British- Indian artist whose work questions notions of perception. He has co-opted a revolutionary black materia

2020-11-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

If the legal route was barred by injunctions or contempt of court, he made his cause a moral one. He ran the story over several pages under a banner headline, and week by week foun

2020-11-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
文艺版块Colour in art
艺术中的颜色Paint it black
把它涂成黑色The colour black has long been the ultimate test of an artist’s ingenuity
黑色一直是对艺术家创造力的终

2020-11-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Harold Evans, editor and publisher, died on September 23rd, aged 92
编辑、出版人哈罗德·埃文斯于9月23日逝世，享年92岁。On that day in 1981 when he first sat at the pinnacle of Bri

2020-11-17 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Bristling to work
竖着工作In tests with a number of unnamed battery companies, Dr Boulanger says VACNT electrodes achieved an energy density of 500wh/kg in one battery and up to 1

2020-11-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

According to a paper its inventors published recently in Nature Communications, the Graz cell's performance exceeds that of a Li-ion battery. It is able, for example, to cope w

2020-11-16 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Questions in such tests may ask a candidate to describe their behaviour in hypothetical situations: dealing with an angry customer, for example. The suggested answers may all be pl

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Superbatteries
超级电池What do you get when you cross a hare with a tortoise?
乌龟和兔子交配产下的种Mixing supercapacitors and batteries may give electric cars what they need to

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

None of the attackers in Dresden, Paris, Nice or Vienna is thought to have reached Iraq or Syria. Though the Dresden suspect had been convicted of recruiting on behalf of IS and do

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

On November 2nd the Chinese central bank and banking regulator published new draft rules for online micro-lending, which looked almost perfectly tailored to undercut Ant. Online le

2020-11-13 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Questionable behaviour
别有用心的行为Companies are relying more and more on psychometric tests
公司们越来越依赖心理计量测验Here is a test.

2020-11-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Capacitors, by contrast—whether basic or "super"—consist of a pair of electrically conductive plates placed either side of a separator material. When a voltage is applied to thes

2020-11-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Regulators v Ant Group
监管者 V 蚂蚁集团Ant agonises
热锅上的蚂蚁The world's biggest IPO is now the world's biggest suspended IPO
世界上最大的IPO现在是世界上最大的暂缓IP