学英语的童鞋们,都经常为一个名为阅读的小妖精所烦扰。有时,斗志满满,立下决心要好好学习,但当一翻开英文书本,面对着那密密麻麻的英文字母时,小退堂鼓就打了起来,要不,就是

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(26) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Language Barriers Blamed for Miscues 跨国公司高管认为语言障碍导致重大损失 Nearly half the executives at global companies believe language barriers have spoiled cross-border deals and caused financial losses for companies, says a rep

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

Obituary;Richard Holbrooke; 讣告;理查德霍尔布鲁克; Richard Holbrooke, diplomat and troubleshooter, died on December 13th, aged 69. 外交家和纠纷调解专家理查德霍尔布鲁克,于12月13日去世,享年69岁。 HIS fav

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人人物系列

Business. 商业。 German business. 德国商业。 Screwdrivers drawn. 拉锯战。 A shareholder stand-off in the Black Forest. 山林地区股东的势均力敌之争。 IF YOU have ever struggled to assemble a flat-pack wardrobe, the chances are

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Hunger in North Korea 朝鲜的饥荒 Let them eat maize husks 让他们吃玉米皮 The politics of hunger in a brutal place 野蛮之地的饥荒政治 May 12th 2011 | SEOUL | from the print edition IT IS the time of year when the previous harvest

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Human beings and dogs;Man's best friend; 文艺;书评;人类与狗狗;人类最好的朋友; Scientific research throws new light on a very old partnership 科学研究赋予这一古老的伴侣关系以新的内涵

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French consumers 法国消费者 Made in France, not 法国制造,真的吗? What a new love of shopping malls says about French society 购物中心的新宠如何评价法国社会 WITH polished stone floors and a plate-glass roof, a shimmering

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China's pool of high-earning consumers is set to surge in the next 15 years, a report showed. 一份报告显示,未来15年,我国高收入消费者数量将激增。 The number of people with a disposable income of at least $10,000 per year is

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The euro zone 欧元区 That sinking feeling (again) 那种再次下沉的感觉 If Germany, France and Italy cannot find a way to refloat Europe's economy, the euro may yet be doomed 如果德国、法国和意大利找不到办法重振欧洲经济,

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Greece and the euro 希腊和欧元 Crisis revisited 危机重现 The euro is still vulnerable, and Greece is not the only problem 欧元仍然脆弱不堪,而希腊不是其中唯一的问题。 IT WAS almost exactly five years ago that the euro c

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Assuming their controls are adequate, that would still leave 90% of the wage difference between white workers and ethnic minorities, which was recently estimated to be 14%, unexplained. 假设他们的控制条件相同,那么白种人员工和少数

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Shoemaking 制鞋业 Asian brogue 亚洲花皮鞋 Exports help to revive the high end of Britain's decimated shoe industry 进口帮助拯救英国衰落的高端制鞋业 FROM the attic of his cramped old factory in the middle of Northampton, Stephe

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Finance and economics: Venezuelan government debt: Running out of time 财经:委内瑞拉国债:时间所剩无几 A devastating spiral continues. 一场持续性灾难。 To most investors, Venezuela looks less like a market than a mess. 对于大

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Science and technology - Psychosomatic medicine 科学技术 Psychosomatic medicine 身心医学 Think yourself well 要相信,你的身体很棒 You can. But it helps to think well of yourself in the first place 你可以拥有很好的体魄。但首

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To the alphabet soup of international development banks (ADB, AfDB, CAF, EBRD, IADB), add one more set of initials: AIIB, or for the uninitiated, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. On October 24th, representatives from 21 Asian nations signed

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In End of inflation in the kingdom of Lizarb where everything is back to front he skewered the belief that rising prices cause fiscal deficits. 在Lizarb王国通货膨胀的终结一切都回到从前他坚持着物价上涨会导致财政赤字的看

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New fiction新小说 Somali son索马里之子 A voice from Africa来自非洲的声音 Sep 17th 2011 | from the print edition Crossbones. By Nuruddin Farah. Riverhead; 389 pages; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com 《死亡髅骷》;努鲁德因?法拉著;

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United States 美国 Donald Trump and Satire: Super Soaking 特朗普与讽刺:全方位包围 Lessons in civics from comedians. 从喜剧中获得的公民经验。 Barack obama was bad for satirists, even if few seemed to mind. 讽刺作家很难拿

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Climate change 气候变化 In praise of second best 次好方案获认可 A carbon price would be better, but Barack Obama's plan to cut emissions from power plants is welcome 为碳排放定价显然更为理想,但奥巴马的电厂减排方案依

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Finance and Economics 财经 Foreign Exchange Trading: Be good, or else 外汇交易:规矩点 A new code of conduct aims to clean up a tonish market. 新规指向规整通行市场。 Financial market traders have earned a pretty shocking reputati

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