2021-04-14 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Life, the universe and everything
生命，宇宙和万物 Beauty spots
美丽的邂逅 Just possibly, a route to the much-sought "new physics" has opened

2021-04-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Bilibili does so in two main ways: by offering games where players purchase virtual items to advance to the next level, and access to original and licensed films and se

2021-04-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A stately manner
国家风范Over the past few months, the strength of currency inflows into China—via both its trade surplus and inbound financial investments—implied that the yuan

2021-04-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Entertainment
娱乐专栏Billing, billing
声名显赫China’s YouTube wants to be its Netflix—and more
中国版油管想成为中国版网飞——而且还不止如此The mission state

2021-04-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The pessimistic view is that China is, and always will be, the market of the future. The head of a foreign bank in Shanghai describes China's regulatory demands as a "purity te

2021-04-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In aiming for these, people often miss the mark, one reason the platform hosts so much recklessness, attention-seeking and off-target humour. Yet though tweets may be appraised lik

2021-04-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mirror, mirror, you're the wall
镜子，镜子，你就是那面墙Dr Xu and Dr Pan conducted their trial at night, to minimise the amount of background light that might have interfered

2021-04-09 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The memory hole 忘怀洞Tweets feel like conversation but are judged—and punished—like writing 推文感觉像是口语对话，但却要像书面用

2021-04-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Denis Sassou Nguesso won re-election as president of Congo-Brazzaville, which he has ruled for 36 years. Various countries, including France and America, have taken steps to confis

2021-04-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Espionage (2) 间谍活动（2）Round the bend 视线转弯How to see what is hidden from view 如何看见视线外的隐藏物In a locked room in a busy city, some terrorists are holding a hostage.

2021-04-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week 一周要闻Politics政治版块Myanmar’s army continued to shoot at demonstrators and rampage through neighbourhoods where there have been protests against the m

2021-04-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In 1996, after the Oslo peace accords (a compromise he detested) he returned at last to Ramallah. He tried to coax joy out of himself, as hens were coaxed with barley, but it was h

2021-04-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A big part of the problem in America is that, rather than route purchases through competing payment pipes, the fintechs still often have little choice but to rely on America’s cre

2021-04-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There is still tremendous scope for growth. In the onshore stockmarket foreigners hold nearly 5% of Chinese shares; by comparison, foreigners own about 25% of American shares. Fore

2021-04-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
社论Online commerce
电子商务Fintech comes to America at last
美国终于迎来金融科技A digital-payments system that favours consumers,not banks and credit-card firms, is lon

2021-04-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Part of that is a hedge-fund industry with Chinese characteristics. Regulators forbid the short-selling of individual stocks. But scores of big investment managers have emerged, wi

2021-04-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

He agonised about returning. In a sense, displacement was not unusual for him; it was the natural condition of a poet, the outsider, critically observing the world and distanced fr

2021-04-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Baidu’s bosses appear to recognise as much. The firm is rapidly diversifying. Last November it agreed to buy YY Live, a video-sharing and live-streaming app, for $3.6bn, in a bid

2021-04-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
商业版块Baidu
百度Searching for the next big thing
搜索下一个风口China’s biggest search engine turns to personal transport to drive profits
中国最大搜索引擎转向个人出

2021-04-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It was not homesickness he felt, as he shifted his bags and wrote his poems, producing a dozen volumes by the end. Nostalgia was lazy, futile. What he felt was that his will had be

2021-04-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In this case, to stop such an infection happening, Dr Harwood and Dr Salmela heat-treated, and so killed, the pathogens in advance. They also labelled the dead bacteria with a fluo

2021-04-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Emmanuel Faber was ousted as chairman and chief executive of Danone, 法国达能(Danone)食品公司董事长兼首席执行官费柏尔(Emmanuel Faber)被免职。following a campaign by activist invest

2021-04-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Obituary
讣告Mourid Barghouti
穆里德·巴尔古提The pain of displacement
漂泊之殇Mourid Barghouti, a Palestinian poet, died on February 14th, aged 76
巴勒斯坦诗人穆里德·巴尔古提

2021-04-01 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Banks, despite their conservative exterior, had a big hand in shadow financing. They got around caps on deposit rates by funnelling savings into opaque "wealth-management products"

2021-03-31 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The plaintiffs say they will appeal against the refusal of compensation. In the meantime, campaigners plan to use the lower court’s finding to bolster suits in other c