Tenants who don't pay the rent are a bane of landlords everywhere. 不付房租的房客让世界各地的房东头疼。 And landlords who use heavy tactics to enforce payment are similarly a bane of tenants. 而使用高压手段强制要求付款的...
ounting for Chinas increased size is easy. But the economy has not just grown since 2000; its manufacturers have also become enmeshed in supply chains of mind-boggling complexity. A factory in Wuhan may provide parts to a ?rm elsewhere in China, whic...
In her first speech as the fund's chief, 在她就任基金总裁的首次演讲中, she called for governments to enact domestic reforms that achieve stronger and more resilient growth, 她呼吁政府实施国内改革,实现更强劲、更有弹...
There is an inherent tension between Chinas apparent success in containing the epidemic and its growth prospects. Though less lethal, covid-19 seems more infectious than SARS. China has slowed its advance only by severely limiting peoples movement an...
Leaders 来源于2月15日刊《社论》版块 Disease and growth 疾病和发展 Viral slowdown 病毒放缓 How Chinas epidemic could hurt the world economy 这次病毒会如何影响世界经济 When shocks hit the global economy, Wall Street lo...
The IMF is familiar with unwelcome edicts. Its job as the world's lender of last resort often involves demanding reform. IMF对不受欢迎的法令很熟悉。作为世界的最后贷款人,IMF的工作常常涉及要求改革。 But its staff may...
These new pieces were often taxing: a high B for solo treble in Thomas Ads's The Fayrfax Carol, hectic stops and starts in Judith Weir's Illuminare, Jerusalem, stamping in Harrison Birtwistle's The Gleam. Quite hostile letters came into the director...
There is no consensus among professional linguists as to whether, in aggregate, these features make Scots a language, or merely a dialect. Geo?rey Pullum, an Englishman at the University of Edinburgh, leans towards language status. Despite his expert...
Pronunciation is not enough to make Scots a language, or the Geordie English spoken in the north-east of England would be one, too. But it also has its own vocabulary, which goes beyond the well-known aye, bonnie lass of ?lms and television. Scots de...
来源于《图书和艺术》版块 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 A cup o kindness 一杯善意的酒 A politically charged debate over the status of the Scots tongue 关于苏格兰语地位的政治辩论 As they cleared their heads after Burns Ni...