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《经济学人》2021年6月12日刊精彩文章导读及资源免费下载学英语有什么好处？在各种问答平台上，答案是丰富多彩的。
有的因为英语优秀带来了好的职业方向，当上CEO，迎娶白富美；也有的持反对意见，多年教育，浪费在英语的时间是最长久的，却没有好结果。
回答这个的问题，可能最好是用切身经历来回答，否则就容易说得空泛，缺少说服力。
我也尝试举个例子。
英国著名杂志《自然》（Nature）是世界上最权威的科学杂志之一。
杂志以报道科学世界中的重大发现、重要突破为使命，要求科研成果新颖。
此杂志发表的文章可信度很高。
为了不受政治因素的影响，像与新冠疫情有关的报道，也可以阅读这个网站的内容。
我昨天在这本杂志的官网上无意翻到一文《China is vaccinating a staggering 20 million people a day》。
我就把此文做了双语翻译《中国接种疫苗速度：每天两千万人 | 自然杂志双语中英对照精读》。
真巧，当晚的《人民日报》公众号，也发了一条推送。
文章就是我白天所翻译的那篇英文。
我想说的是，这篇文章是6月9号发布的。
我们如果不学英语，获取这个资讯可能已经是6月11号，也就是3天之后了。
新闻资讯存在时效性。
学好英语，至少可以让我们早点了解最新的知识和方向。
在前文，我提到过，创建了一个免费的英语学习微信群。
在群里我已学到不少知识。
比如，这周四，有朋友在群里提出个疑问：The farm produces an unbelievable 7million flowers every year.这句的名词复数前为什么用 an ?我第一反应是这个句子有问题。
名词复数前怎么还能用不定冠词呢？可是，此句来自专四英语语法书上。
我开始犹豫，毕竟专四教材一般不会出现这么低级的错误。
后有朋友反馈，在修饰数字的形容词前，可以用不定冠词。
比较常见的单词有staggering、whopping等。
挺好，又学到一个知识点。
经济学人文章(四六级雅思精读素材)2020-08-27
The Economist August 29th 2020 Business 55Depending on whom you ask, Califor-nia is a leader in clean energy or a cau-tionary tale. Power outages in August prompted stern critiques from Republi-cans. “In California”, D onald Trump tweeted, “D emocrats have intentionally implemented rolling blackouts—forcing Americans in the dark.” In addition to pro-voking outrage and derision, however, the episode is also likely to inspire investment.The Golden State has long been Ameri-ca’s main testing ground for green compa-nies. Californians buy half of all electric cars sold in America. Theirs is the country’s largest solar market. As California deals with heat waves, fires and a goal of carbon-free electricity by 2045, the need for a reli-able grid is becoming ever more obvious.For years firms competed to generate clean power in California. Now a growing num-ber are vying to store and manage it, too. August’s blackouts have many causes,including poor planning, an unexpected lack of capacity and sweltering heat in not just California but nearby states from which it sometimes imports power. Long before the outages, however, electricity op-erators were anxious about capacity. Cali-fornia’s solar panels become less useful in the evening, when demand peaks. In No-vember state regulators mandated that utilities procure an additional 3.3 gigawatts (gw ) of capacity, including giant batteries that charge when energy is abundant and can sell electricity back to the grid.Too few such projects have come online to cope with the surge in demand for air-conditioning in the scorching summer. But more are sprouting across the state. On Au-gust 19th ls Power, an electricity firm backed by private equity, unveiled a 250-megawatt (mw ) storage project in San Die-go, the largest of its kind in America. In July the county of Monterey said Vistra Energy,a Texan power company, could build as much as 1.2gw of storage.The rooftop solar industry stands to benefit from a new Californian mandate that requires new homes to install panels on their roofs from this year. Sunrun, the market leader, is increasingly pairing such residential installations with batteries. In July, for instance, the company said it had won contracts with energy suppliers in the Bay Area to install 13mw of residential solar and batteries. These could supply power to residents in a blackout or feed power into the grid to help meet peak demand. Sunrunis so confident in its future that it has bid $3.2bn for Vivint Solar,its main rival.Another way to stave offoutages is to curb demand.Enel,a European power company,has contracts with local utilities to work with large commercial and indus-trial clients.When demand rises,Enel pays customers to reduce energy consumption,easing demand on the grid.A company called OhmConnect offers something sim-ilar for homeowners.Even as such offerings scale up,the need for reliability means that fossil fuels will not disappear just yet.On September 1st California’s regulators will vote on whether to delay the retirement of four natural-gas plants in light of the outages.The state remains intent on decarbonising its power system over the next 25years.But progress may not move in a straight line.7NEW YO RKBusinesses compete to battle California’s blackoutsEnergy utilitiesLitMany big companies may be struggling with depressed sales, but these are busy times for bribery-busters. Mexico is abuzz over allegations by an ex-boss of Pe-mex, the state oil giant, that several senior politicians received bungs from compa-nies including Odebrecht, a Brazilian con-struction firm (see Americas section). The scandal is the latest in a string of graft cases to make headlines this year, starting with Airbus’s record $4bn settlement in January over accusations of corruption for making illegal payments in various countries.Corporate bribery is hardly new. In sur-veys, between a third and a half of compa-nies typically claim to have lost business to rivals who won contracts by paying kick-backs. But such perceptions-based re-search has obvious limitations. A new study takes a more rigorous approach, and draws some striking conclusions.Raghavendra Rau of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, Yan-Leung Cheung of the Education University of Hong Kong and Aris Stouraitis of Hong Kong Baptist University examined nearly 200 prominent bribery cases in 60 coun-tries between 1975 and 2015. For the firms doing the bribing, they found, the short-term gains were juicy: every dollar of bribe translated into a $6-9 increase in excess re-turns, relative to the overall stockmarket. That, however, does not take account of the chances of getting caught. These have risen as enforcement of America’s 43-year-old anti-bribery law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (fcpa ), has been stepped up and other countries have passed similar laws. The number of fcpa cases is up sharply since the financial crisis of 2007-09, according to Stanford Law School (see chart). It has dipped a bit under Presi-dent Donald Trump, who has criticised the fcpa for hobbling American firms over-seas, but remains well above historic lev-els. Total fines for fcpa violations were $14bn in 2016-19, 48 times as much as in the four years to 2007.The authors also tested 11hypotheses that emerged from past studies of bribery.They found support for some, for instance that firms pay larger bribes when they ex-pect to receive larger benefits, and that the net benefits of bribing are smaller in places with more public disclosure of politicians’sources of income.But they punctured other bits of re-ceived wisdom. Most striking, they found no link between democracy and graft. This challenges the “Tullock paradox”, which holds that firms can get away with smaller bribes in democracies because politicians and officials have less of a lock on the sys-tem than those in autocratic countries, and so cannot extract as much rent. Such find-ings will doubtless be of interest to corrup-tion investigators and unscrupulous exec-utives alike. 7Bribery pays—if you don’t get caughtBriberyA closer look at greasy palmsBrown envelopes, big chequesUnited States,Foreign Corrupt Practices ActSources:Stanford Law School;Sullivan &Cromwell*Investigations and enforcement actions †To August6543210605040302010020†10152000059095851977Enforcement actionsSanctions, $bnUtilitiesTransport Communications Basic materials Financial services Consumer goods Aerospace & defence TechnologyIndustrials Health care Oil &gas 100806040200Number of cases* by selected industry1977-2020†。
《经济学人》英语热点文章精选8篇(中英文对照
（考研英语阅读原文很多来自《经济学人》，希望大家好好看看)印度的救赎IN MAY America’s Federal Reserve hinted that it would soon start to reduce its vast purchases of Treasury bonds. As global investors adjusted to a world without ultra—cheap money, there has been a great sucking of funds from emerging markets。
Currencies and shares have tumbled, from Brazil to Indonesia, but one country has been particularly badly hit。
今年五月，美国联邦储备委员会(Federal Reserve）暗示，它将很快开始缩减大量购买国债的规模。
随着全球投资者开始调整策略，以适应没有超廉价资金的世界，大量资金开始逃离新兴市场.从巴西到印度尼西亚，货币及股票纷纷暴跌，但有一个国家受创尤其严重.Not so long ago India was celebrated as an economic miracle. In 2008 Manmohan Singh，the prime minister，said growth of 8—9% was India’s new cruising speed. He even predicted the end of the “chronic poverty，ignorance and disease, which has been the fate of millions of our countrymen for centuries”. Today he admits the outlook is difficult. The rupee has tumbled by 13% in three months。
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Finance and EconomicsOffshore private banking离岸私人银行业Bourne to survive伯恩的幸存Aug 6th 2009From The Economist print editionDespite the woes of UBS, Swiss private banking remains in reasonable shape尽管瑞银处境不佳，瑞士的私人银行业仍保有相当规模Illustration by S. KambayashiA FTER visiting his bank in Zurich, Jason Bourne, an amnesic assassin, wonders: “Who has a safety-deposit box full of money and six passports and a gun?” In the popular imagination as well as Hollywood films the answer is clear: customers of Swiss banks do.当失忆的杀手詹森•伯恩(Jason Bourne)从其位于苏黎世的银行走出后，自问到：”什么样的人会有一个装满了钱、6本护照还有一把枪的银行保险箱？”在大众的想像与好莱坞的电影中，这个答案是明确的：瑞士银行的客户就是这样的人。
If this reputation for skulduggery is right, Switzerland, home to about one-quarter of the world’s offshore money, is in big trouble. After nearly going bust, UBS, its biggest bank, is now being pistol-whipped by America’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which wants it to hand over the names of tens of thousands of alleged tax dodgers. A preliminary settlement between the two was agreed on July 31st, although its details have yet to be made public. In March Switzerland agreed to comply with an OECD tax code that will oblige it to reveal information on clients that other governments say they need to enforce their laws. Where will crooks, despots and war criminals go now? And what will Swiss private banks do when they leave?如果这种隐秘而无原则的名声不是空穴来风的话，瑞士，这个坐拥世界四分之一离岸资金的国家将会有大麻烦。
高中英语【拓展阅读】《经济学人》精读：The meaning of Halloween 双语课件
dress up as 乔装打扮成 drip v 滴 be dripping with blood 滴血 fake adj 假的 knock at / on the door 敲门 demand v 强烈要求
ON OCTOBER 31st, American children will dress up as witches and ghosts, sometimes dripping with fake blood, and knock on their neighbours’ doors to demand sweets.
通常，他们的父母也会这么干。在之前的几天，许多人会将自己的花园 装扮成墓地，放上一些塑料制作的骨头或者头骨，最后再加一些毛茸茸 的蜘蛛。
transform v 使改变形态 (trans- + form) transform sth into sth 将某物改 成某物
graveyard n 墓地 (grave + yard) scattered v 撒；(使) 分散 crawl v 爬行 enormous adj 巨大的 (huge / immense)
Yet Halloween is on the rise, as growing bands of drunken ghouls (盗 墓食尸鬼) in Britain’s city centres shows. So what is it? Its shiny witch costumes probably have their origins in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, during which people marked the onset of winter by dressing up as evil spirits.
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经济学人The insecurity of freelance workTHE decline of the conventional job has been much heralded in recent years.近年来，许多征兆显示出（传统工作）的衰落herald 英['her(ə)ld]n. 预兆，征兆；先驱；传令官；报信者vt. 通报；预示…的来临It is now nearly axiomatic that …是不言而喻的axiomatic[,æksɪə'mætɪk]adj. 公理的；自明的：eg. It is axiomatic that as people grow older they generally become less agile.人年纪越大通常灵活性越差，这是不言而喻的。
Opinion is still divided over whether this change is a cause for concern or a chance for workers to be liberated from the rut of office life.这种工作形式的变化应该令人担忧，还是会把工作者从枯燥乏味的办公室生活中解脱出来？人们的观点仍然存在分歧。
be liberated from 从…中解脱出来the rut of office life枯燥乏味的办公室生活be in a rut 千篇一律；一成不变I don't like being in a rut – I like to keep moving on.我不喜欢一成不变–我喜欢不断前进。
自由职业群体alternative employment=self-employed sector=freelance work=self-employed traders= non-traditional workersconventionally employed people传统从业者=regular employmentsole traders个体户independent consultants独立顾问tax advantages税务优惠top up income“zero hours” contracts 零时合约gig economy零工经济”contract out” tasks签约外包，合同外包rolling contract 滚动合约[a contract that continues automatically unless someone decides to end it]As for 至于the gig economy, it actually seems to be quite a small part of the alternative-employment sector…makes them vulnerable to any change in their circumstances.使他们更容易受到环境变化影响the Great Recession 大萧条aggregate turnover 周转总额,营业总额real earnings实际收入Far more people work in construction or business services than drive cars for Uber.从事…的人远多于…It’s easier than ever to get work done without hiring someone as an employee. But the growing group of non-traditional workers (that results ) has no access to labour protections or safety nets provided by law to employees. 不新增雇员就把工作搞定比过去任何时候都更容易，但因此产生的不断壮大的非传统工作群体，却无法享受法律赋予雇员的劳动保护和保障机制。
经济学人外刊精读丨米老鼠可能退出迪士尼
7.23经济学人外刊精读| 米老鼠可能退出迪士尼经济学人原文Mickey Mouse could exit Disney as 95-year copyright expiry date hovers【1】Disney could soon lose the exclusive rights to some of its most famouscharacters, including Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain in the year 2024, almost 95 years after his creation on 1 October 1928– the length of time after which the copyright on an anonymous or pseudo-anonymous body of artistic work expires under US copyright law.【2】The mouse that now acts as the entertainment giant’s mascot first appeared inthe black-and-white cartoon Steamboat Willie. The cartoon wasa pioneer in animation for its use of synchronised sound –where movements on screen correspond to the music and soundeffects, launching one of the most recognisable images in film and television. According to the National Museum of American History: “Over the years, Mickey Mouse has gone through several transformations to his physical appearance and personality. In his early years, the impish and mischievous Mickey looked morerat-like, with a long pointy nose, black eyes, a smallish body with spindly legs and a long tail.” While this first rat-like iteration of Mickey will be stripped ofits copyright, Disney retains its copyright on any subsequent variations in other films or artwork until they reach the 95-year mark.【3】Daniel Mayeda is the associate director of the Documentary Film Legal Clinicat UCLA School of Law, as well as a longtime media and entertainment lawyer. He said the copyright expiration does not come without limitations. “You can use the Mickey Mouse character as it was originally created to create your own Mickey Mouse stories or stories with this character. But if you do so in a way that people will think of Disney – which is kind of likely because they have been investing in this character for so long – then in theory, Disney could sayyou violated my copyright.”【4】Other characters have already moved into the public domain:with unpredictable and somewhat shocking results. Honey-loving bearWinnie-the-Pooh from the Hundred Acre Wood and most of his animal friends entered public domain in January this year and some have wasted no time in capitalising on the beloved characters. A Mint Mobile advert in the US features a charac ter called ‘Winnie the-Screwed,’ a bear with a costly phone bill.More disturbingly, Pooh and his good friend Piglet are now the stars ofWinnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, a soon-to-be released horror film, written and directed by Rhys Waterfield, that sees the two go on a bloody rampage of killing after being abandoned by their old friend, Christopher Robin.【5】Mayeda said it’s important for artists like Waterfield not to cross the line whenit comes to creating new works based on the old characters.certain aspects of a character that the general public recognises as part of the Disney brand are off-limits for artists who wish to make use of the copyright expirations. Ifa particular work confuses the public into thinking it is actually affiliated with Disney, there could be major legal consequences. “Copyrights are time-limited,” Mayeda said. “trademarks are not. So Disney could havea trademark essentially in perpetuity, as long as they keep using various things as they’re trademarked, whether they’re words, phrases, characters or whatever.”【6】Disney may still maintain trademarks on certain catchphrasesor signature outfits worn by the characters, such as Pooh’s red shirt, which Waterfield intentionally avoided using in his movie.Disney also retains exclusive rights to the bouncing tiger, Tigger, for not much longer since his first appearance was in 1928 in The House at Pooh Corner, the series of stories written by Winnie-the-Pooh creator A A Milne.。
经济学人 20230629 Sichuan peppers 精读
20230629 The curious, anaesthetising charm of Sichuan pepperscurious adj.奇特的，离奇古怪的anaesthetize vt.使麻醉／ə＇ni：sθətaiz／anaesthetic adj.麻醉的／ænəs＇θetik／anaesthesia n.麻醉／ænəs＇θi：ziə／adventurous adj.新奇的The menu contained traditional favourites as well as more adventurous dishes.这份菜单有受欢迎的传统菜，也有较为新奇的菜肴。
Like some other adventurous foods, they expand your sense of what eating can do to you“Polysemous” describes a word with several meanings, such as “run”, “set”, or, in the kitchen, “pepper”. That term encompasses the entire Capsicum annuum family, from vegetal green bell peppers to searing little Thai chillies. It includes dried, powdered Piperaceae berries, known as black and white pepper, as well as one of the strangest and most addictive spices in the world: Zanthoxylum simulans, more commonly known as Sichuan pepper.polysemous adj.一词多义的polysemy n.一词多义poly-多，众polygon n.多边形pentagon n.五边形polyglot adj.多语言的encompass vt.包含compass n.指南针；范围encase vt.把······装入到盒子里family n.（动植物的）科genus n.属species n.种Capsicum annuym n.一年生辣椒binomial nomenclature n.双名法Tyrannosaurus rex n.霸王龙Homo sapiens n.智人vegetal adj.植物的bell pepper n.甜椒searing adj.灼热的，火辣辣的Thai chilli n.泰国辣椒，鸟眼椒peppercorn n.胡椒粒Whereas ordinary peppercorns grow on vines, Sichuan peppers are berries of the prickly-ash tree and part of the citrus family. They come in red and green varieties; the red has an earthily floral taste, where the green is more astringent. Their most pronounced feature, however, is not their flavour but their effect on the mouth: they contain a chemical called hydroxy-alpha-sanshool, which induces a tingling numbness in the lips and tongue, a bit like being subjected to a long but mild electric shock.prickly-ash tree n.花椒树citrus n.柑橘属Rutaceae n.芸香科variety n.品种grape variety n.葡萄品种earthy adj.泥土的floral adj.花的flora n.植物群fauna n.动物群where conj.然而Sometimes a teacher will be listened to, where a parent might not. 有时教师的话会听，而父母的话可能就不听。
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中文导读外资风投：黯然离场？上世纪90年代开始,“copy to China”风潮涌起,外资在中国这块赚钱的风水宝地如鱼得水。
如今,中国市场的魅力依然吸引着众多外资入局,但他们日子并不好过。
中国本土孵化器遍地开花、本土企业不断崛起,对外资风投形成了强有力的挤压。
当下中国科技大爆发、政策逐渐健全,“copy from China”的时代已经开启。
未来,外资还会青睐中国市场吗？less where that came from 与文章最后一句呼应,改用习语MoreWhere that Came from:A greater number of similar things can be pro-vided in the future 陆续有来skittish adj.not very serious and with ideas and feelings that keepchanging 轻浮的;易变的;反复无常的venture capitalist n.someone who makes money by investing inhigh risk projects 风险投资者demo (=demostration)n.an act of showing or explaining how sthworks or is done 示范;示范表演;演示Y Combinator 美国著名创业孵化器,Y Combinator 扶持初创企业并为其提供创业指南startup n.a small business that has recently been started by someone新创办的小公司vie (with sb)(for sth)与某人争夺某物SYN contend with sb for sthhigh-profile adj.receiving or involving a lot of attention and discus-sion on television,in newspapers,etc.经常出镜/见报的;高姿态的accelerator a company that helps new companies get started by giving them such things as office space,legal help and marketing services inexchange for payment 企业加速器/孵化器SYN incubatorthe like of sb/sth (also sb’s/sth’s like )something similar to someoneor a particular person or thing,or of equal importance or value 像某人(物)一样的人/物SYN equivalent ,matchDropbox 一款网络文件同步工具,提供在线存储服务,类似于百度云pull out of to move away from sth or stop being involved in it 脱离,退出nurture v.to help sb/sth to develop and be successful 扶持;帮助;支持SYN foster It’s important to nurture a good working relationship.维持良好的工作关系非常重要。
localised adj.地方化的,本土化的incarnation n.化身,代表in the context of 在⋯情况下;在⋯背景下rift a serious disagreement between people that stops their relation-ship from continuing 分裂;分歧;严重不和SYN ruptureominous suggesting that sth bad is going to happen in the future 预兆的;恶兆的;不吉利的SYN forebodingBy China,For China,Of China 建于中国、为了中国、属于中国,陆奇加入YC 时提的条件arm a section of a large organization that deals with one particularactivity 分部;职能部门at odds with to be different from sth,when the two things should bethe same (与⋯)有差异,相矛盾SYN conflict withventure capital money that is invested in a new company to help it develop,which may involve a lot of risk 风险资本(投入新公司的资金,风险很大)red-hot adj.new,exciting and of great interest to people 热门的,火爆的SYN sizzlingoperation n.a business organization;a company 商业机构;公司Sand Hill Road 沙山路,硅谷一个普通地名,被称为“西海岸华尔街”,上百家声名如雷贯耳的风险投资公司在这里汇集,与华尔街不同,这里以投资高新技术产业为主heavyweight n.a very important person,organization or thing thatinfluences others 有影响力的人(或组织、事物)covet v.to want sth very much,especially sth that belongs to sb else渴望;贪求(尤指别人的东西);觊觎exchange n.a building where business people met in the past to buy and sell a particular type of goods 交易所Investing in Chinese technology Less where that came fromHomegrown rivals and skittish American investors are making life harder for foreign venture capitalists in China T HE FIRST “demo day”in Beijing last November of Y Combinator (YC)hosted two dozen local startups vying for the attention of high-profile investors.It marked the entrance into China of Silicon Valley’s most famous accelerator ,which has helped launch the likes of Airbnb and Dropbox .Then,days later,YC abruptly announced it was pulling out of the country.In a statement YC said that it was returning,under a new boss,to in-vesting in startups from its Californian base.Its Chinese startups will be nurtured by MiraclePlus,YC China’s new,fully localised incarna-tion .Yet in the context of a deepening Sino-American rift ,the retreat looks ominous .“Under the current global environment,to realise our mission—By China,For China,Of China —we must have the ability to master our own destiny,”wrote MiraclePlus in a social-media post,citing Lu Qi,its boss,whom YC had hired to set up its Chinese arm in 2018.(Mr Lu declined to be interviewed for this article.)At first glance,YC’s fate seems at odds with the broader health of foreign venture capital (VC)in China,with its red-hot tech indus-try.The Chinese operations of Sand Hill Road heavyweights such asLightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital—whose fifth Chinese growth-stage fund raised $1.8bn,twice as much as its last—are thriv-ing.Chinese founders have coveted attention from foreign funds,seen as the best route to listing on American exchanges and keener than Chinese counterparts to back ideas that take longer to make money.denominate to express an amount of money using a particular unit以(某种货币)为单位dollar-denominated n.以美元计价的duration 指理财产品的存续期间expertise expertknowledge or skill in a particular subject,activity or job 专门知识;专门技能;专长on top of 此外;除⋯外(还有)in addition to ,besides cheque 支票,这里指代投资公司给予新企业的资金支持be a breeze n.to be very easy 容易,轻松be a piece of cakeDon’t think that learning Dutch will be a breeze.不要以为学荷兰语是件轻松的事。