经济学人:德国大众 征服全世界(上)

Volkswagen 大众汽车 VW conquers the world 大众征服世界 Germanys biggest carmaker is leaving rivals in the dust 德国最大汽车制造商令对手望尘莫及 When Ferdinand Piech arrived as Volkswagens chief executive in 1993, things look

经济学人:德国大众 征服全世界(下)

VW bet on China nearly 30 years ago. Now it is the worlds biggest car market and VW has 18% of it, through two joint ventures. They sell 2m vehicles a year and plan to double this by 2018. A glut of cheap cars is hurting prices in China but VWs premi

经济学人:德国偷金属的贼

Metal thieves in Germany 德国偷金属的贼 Stealing steel 金属窃贼偷窃钢材 Why the trains are late 火车晚点的原因 In the wee hours of a recent morning a young man with a rucksack was sauntering along the railway line near Grossbeer

经济学人:国外私立大学 是贵还是对?

Private universities 私立大学 A degree of frustration 一定程度的沮丧 Higher education is embracing private suppliersbut timidly 高等教育欢迎私立大学办学者但是仍显怯懦 The first batch of 60 undergraduates at the New Colle

经济学人:欧洲多国陷马肉风波 食品安全谁来保障?

Britain The horse-meat scandal 英国 马肉风波 And the winner is 谁是赢家？ What horse-shy consumers are eating instead 不吃马肉的消费者他们还可以吃什么？ On the face of it, local butchers and vegetarianism have little in co

经济学人:英国4G频谱拍卖 衙门居然没得赚?

Britain The 4G spectrum auction 英国 英国4G频谱拍卖 Second time around 再来一发？ No bonanza for the government, but that might be no bad thing 这一次衙门估计没得赚，不过或许不是什么坏事 Just under 13 years ago the f

经济学人:喜剧贯穿闹剧?各国首领彻夜争论欧盟财政预算

Charlemagne 查理曼大帝专栏 No to EUsterity 欧盟无需紧缩 The European Parliament threatens to veto a hard-won budget 欧洲议会扬言将对来之不易的财政预算投上反对票 The bitterest family rows are often over money. So it

经济学人:陷入窘境?苹果的未来该怎么走?

Business: The future of Apple Shake it off 商业：苹果的未来，摆脱窘境 The worlds most valuable company needs another mega hit. 世界市值最高的公司现需另一款爆款产品。 Our product pipeline has amazing innovations in stor

经济学人:遭版权方起诉?YouTube示范如何规避雷区

Business: YouTube and copyright Free and easy listening 商业：YouTube涉及版权问题，免费自在地听音乐 The music industry lobbies Congress to keep YouTube at bay. 音乐产业游说国会远离YouTube. IN LOVE or in business, it is not

经济学人:英首相叫停核电站建设 中国在英投资热下降(上)

Britain: Chinese investment: Not so gung-ho 英国：中国在英投资热下降 Relations may cool, but the flow of yuan into Britain is unlikely to dry up. 两国关系可能会降温，但人民币会继续流向英国。 After spending a century

经济学人:英首相叫停核电站建设 中国在英投资热下降(下)

The new government has begun to explore what type of trade deal it could strike with the Chinese, but that process could be more difficult if the nuclear project is blocked. 英国新政府已经开始探索能与中国达成何种交易，但如果这

经济学人:帝国野心 马克扎克伯格的下一个计统治地位(上)

Leaders Imperial ambitions 社论精粹 帝国野心 Mark Zuckerberg prepares to fight for dominance of the next era of computing 马克扎克伯格准备为争夺下一个计算时代的统治地位而战 NOT since the era of imperial Rome has the t

经济学人:帝国野心 马克扎克伯格的下一个计统治地位(下)

It already uses AI techniques to identify people in photos, for example, and to decide which status updates and ads to show to each user. Facebook is also pushing into AI-powered digital assistants and chatbot programs which interact with users via s

经济学人:中国的消费大军 依旧活跃(上)

China's consumers 中国的消费大军 Still kicking 依旧活跃 Despite China's economic slowdown, consumption is resilient 尽管中国经济放缓，消费仍旧具备活力 IF YOU believe that China's economy is in trouble and that Chinese cons

经济学人:​中国的消费大军 依旧活跃(中)

1.take over 接管 例句:A British newspaper says British Airways plan to take over Trans World Airways. 一家英国报纸称，英国航空公司计划接管环球航空公司。 2.enough to 足以 例句:You've got enough to think about for the m

经济学人:中国的消费大军 依旧活跃(下)

The dynamism of the mostly-private consumer sector comes not from stimulus, argues Andy Rothman of Matthews Asia, an investment firm, but from strong income growth and low household debt. (Chinese household debt stands at about 40% of GDP, roughly ha

经济学人:Slack一代 职场通讯工具如何取代其他沟通形式(上)

Business Office communication The Slack generation How workplace messaging could replace other missives 商业报道 办公通讯 Slack一代 职场通讯工具如何取代其他沟通形式 STEWART BUTTERFIELD, the boss of Slack, a messaging company

经济学人:Slack一代 职场通讯工具如何取代其他沟通形式(中)

A survey of users, admittedly conducted by the firm itself, suggests that team productivity increases by around a third when they start using the software, primarily by reducing internal e-mail and meetings. Slack has decided to open itself up to oth

经济学人:Slack一代 职场通讯工具如何取代其他沟通形式(下)

A self-professed introvert, which is fitting for a company that sells itself on textual communication, he values efficiency and candour. After Yahoo bought Flickr, he worked there for a few years. Everything was horrible, ugly, slow, difficult to use

经济学人:阿里巴巴 一审再审

Alibaba 阿里巴巴 Under scrutiny 一审再审 American regulators are investigating China's e-commerce giant 美国监管机构正调查中国电商巨头 WE HAVE from time to time been subject to PRC and foreign government inquiries and investiga