Four prosecutors who recommended a stiff prison term for Roger Stone, a confidant of Mr Trump who has been convicted on charges relating to the Mueller probe, resigned from the case after the Justice Department pushed for a lighter punishment. Mr Tru...
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 A general election in Ireland produced a shock win for Sinn Fein, formerly the political wing of the IRA, a terrorist group. The party took the most first-choice votes, but ended up coming second in te...
Commodity exports and aid inflows raise demand for local currencies, making them stronger. 大宗商品出口和援助流入增加了对本币的需求,使本币更加强势。 Governments fear depreciation because they depend on imported capital t...
In 1979 an IMF negotiator met Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's socialist president, and urged him to weaken the country's currency. 1979年,一名IMF谈判代表会见了坦桑尼亚的社会党总统朱利叶斯尼雷尔,并敦促他削弱该国的货币...
He perfected his own works of art: the jab-step-and-pause, using unexpected footwork to pass the defender, and the fadeaway, shooting while he jumped high and backwards from the basket. For 20 seasons, a very long time to stay with one team, he playe...
Things are even worse in technology. In Britain only one in ?ve computer-science university students is a womana big problem at a time when the World Economic Forum predicts that technology will create more than a quarter of all jobs in newly emergin...
The OECD points out that some of the fastest-growing occupations are rarely mentioned by young people. But surely the surprise is not that user support technician is ranked only 158th out of 543 professions and computer user support specialist appear...
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Bartleby 巴托比职业专栏 Teenage picks 青少年的选择 Some unfortunate mismatches in young peoples job preferences and prospects 年轻人在工作偏好和就业前景的错位令人惋惜 The world of...
What was needed to clear the point up was an experiment. And fish are easier to experiment on than mongooses or jays. 需要进行一次实验来弄清楚这一点。与猫鼬或松鸦相比,用鱼做实验更容易。 Jan Naef and Michael Taborsky...
Kobe Bryant, basketball player, was killed in a helicopter crash on January 26th, aged 41. 篮球运动员科比布莱恩特于一月26日在一起直升机事故中逝世,享年41岁。 Whenever he was asked why his whole life had been spent playi...