经济学人:电影商业:MoviePass的金融恐怖秀(1)

Even by the standards of Hollywood, it sounds an unlikely pitch-an app that offers almost unlimited access to cinemas for $10 a month. 每月仅需10美元就能让你在电影院里无限制观看电影，即使是按照好莱坞的标准，这似乎也

经济学人:电影商业:MoviePass的金融恐怖秀(2)

Mitch Lowe, chief executive of MoviePass (and a former Netflix executive), professes to be undaunted by the losses. MoviePass的首席执行官米奇罗威（前Netflix执行官）声称无惧损失。 He says that the most frequent cinema-goers have

经济学人:特斯拉与市场:将特斯拉私有化(1)

I wish we could be private with Tesla. So said an exasperated and exhausted Elon Musk to Rolling Stone last November. 我希望可以将特斯拉私有化。去年11月在对话《滚石》杂志时，愤怒又疲惫的埃隆马斯克说如是。 Tes

经济学人:特斯拉与市场:将特斯拉私有化(2)

Another concern is the sheer size of the proposed deal. 另一个担忧则是拟议交易的绝对规模。 The largest buyout to date, the takeover by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts of RJR Nabisco in 1989, was worth $64bn in today's money. 迄今为止，规

经济学人:Bartleby专栏:公司必须克服技能短缺(1)

American companies spent $91bn on staff training last year, almost a third as much again as they did in 2016. 去年美国公司员工培训支出为910亿美元，比2016年多了近三分之二。 That equated to more than $1,000 for every staff me

经济学人:Bartleby专栏:公司必须克服技能短缺(2)

Patrick Hourigan has spent nearly 12 years at IBM, initially as a systems telecoms engineer and then as a software developer. 帕特里克胡里根在IBM工作了近12年，起初他是一名系统电信工程师，然后成为了一名软件开发者。

经济学人:卢英德掌管下的百事可乐公司

PepsiCo said this week that Indra Nooyi will step down in October after 12 years as chief executive. 百事可乐本周宣布任职百事CEO12年后，卢英德（Indra Nooyi）将于10月辞职。 During her tenure revenues rose by 80% to over $63bn

经济学人:韩国财阀:三星的千亿美元投资(1)

Samsung rarely talks in public about its corporate strategy. 三星很少公开谈论其企业战略。 So when South Korea's biggest chaebol (conglomerate) announced with much fanfare in early August 所以8月初，当韩国最大财阀（企业集团

经济学人:韩国财阀:三星的千亿美元投资(2)

Samsung's promise to add 40,000 new jobs over the next three years, which it claims may generate a further 700,000 in the wider economy, 三星承诺将在未来三年增加4万个新岗位，如三星所称，这或将在更大范围经济中进一步

经济学人:Bartleby专栏:管理者可以向三位国家领袖学习(1)

Business leaders often have a poor opinion of politicians, preferring to find their heroes elsewherein other boardrooms or on the coaching field. 商业领导人通常对政治家的评价很低，他们宁愿在别处在其他会议室里或是在培训

经济学人:Bartleby专栏:管理者可以向三位国家领袖学习(2)

As he took over the presidency, in 1933, unemployment started to fall and GDP began to rise; 自1933年就任总统以来，失业率开始下降，GDP开始增长； the latter rose by 9.5% a year in his first term of office. 在他就任的第一年，

经济学人:天文学:新星诞生(2)

Dr Molnar s interest was piqued at a conference in 2013, Molnar博士的兴趣源于2013年的一次会议， when Karen Kinemuchi, another astronomer, presented some puzzling findings on a particular star seen by Kepler, a space telescope designed c

经济学人:天文学:新星诞生(1)

Science and Techonology 科技 Astronomy: De Nova Stella 天文学：新星诞生 Astronomers predict a Stella explosion will happen in 5 years time. 天文学家预测5年之内会发生一次星际爆炸 Amateur astronomers have a new date for thei

经济学人:授粉:为何雄蜂很差劲?(2)

It is a modified version of a commercially available robot quadcopter, 42mm across. (By comparison, a honeybee worker is about 15mm long.) 它就是市面上可以见到的那种四轴飞行器，只不过经过了改装，全长仅为42mm（相比之下

经济学人:授粉:为何雄蜂很差劲?(1)

Science and Technology 科技 Pollination: Why the bees sucks? 授粉：为何雄蜂很差劲？ Plans for artificial pollinators are afoot. 人造授粉者计划蓄势待发 It is, in one way, the ultimate drone. 人造雄蜂堪称终极的飞行利器

经济学人:性感吸引:我的化学浪漫(2)

Dr Hare and his colleagues took 43 men and 51 women, all of them straight, and gave them two tasks. Hare博士和他的同事们找了43名男性和51名女性，他们都是异性恋，给了他们两个任务。 One was to decide whether an androgy

经济学人:性感吸引:我的化学浪漫(1)

Science and Technology 科技 Sexual Attractiveness: My chemical romance 性感吸引：我的化学浪漫 Two putative human sex pheromones turn out not to be. 关于人类的两种性信息素的假说被证明是不成立的. For several decades b

经济学人:迁徙美洲:检查站(1)

Science and Technology 科技 Peopling the Americas: Checkpoint 迁徙美洲：检查站 The first migrants to the new world had to wait 8000 years to be admitted. 新大陆的第一批移民在8000年后才被公认。 How America was originally col

经济学人:空气污染:吹走它(2)

Another good candidate would be a government-run plant at Badarpur, less than 50km from the middle of Delhi. 另一个较好的选择便是位于巴达普（距德里市中心不到50千米）的官办工厂。 According to the Centre for Science and

经济学人:空气污染:吹走它(1)

Science and technology: Air pollution: Blown away 科技：空气污染：吹走它 Retired jet engines could help clear the smog that smothered big cities. 退役喷射发动机可以用来驱逐笼罩大城市的雾霾。 To land at Indira Gandhi A