Plans are being hatched but have not yet been executed, he says. 他表示,计划正在酝酿中,但尚未付诸实施。 Plants in Mexico owned by international carmakers have the most changes to make. 国际汽车制造商在墨西哥的工厂要...
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (born Ibrahim Awad), leader of Islamic State, blew himself up on October 26th, aged 48 阿布巴克尔巴格达迪(本名易卜拉欣阿瓦徳)是伊斯兰国组织领袖,他于10月26日自爆结束了自己的生命,享年4...
You would need a magic wand to bring back manufacturing jobs, said President Donald Trump on November 12th, 11月12日,唐纳德特朗普总统引用前政府官员的话表示, quoting someone from a past administration. Well, we brought them ba...
But there are unintended consequences. Sexual assault is usually defined (for example, by American and British authorities) as sexual contact without consent. This means that the gamut runs widely, from groping to the most savage rapes. That can make...
Or consider the English word. Coming from Latin rapere, its oldest sense involves neither sex nor bodily harm; it means to take something by force (as in the adjective, rapacious). This represents the attitude of many centuries in which rape was cons...
Six years later, during a brief thaw in the cold war, he found himself training in Houston with Americans, larking around in a Stetson like a cowboy. On the joint Soyuz-Apollo Test Project that followed he and Tom Stafford bear-hugged in the docking...
The next task they tackled was making a suitable binding matrix. 他们接下来要解决的任务是制作合适的粘合基质。 This, Dr Vollrath and his coauthor Mi Ruixin made from a fibrous protein-rich glue of the sort produced naturally by s...
Books arts 图书与艺术 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Unspeakable things 无法用语言表达的事 The problematic vocabulary of sexual violence 有问题的性暴力词汇 It is a clich that three topics should stay off-limits in polite company...
Though guiding such missiles onto a distant moving target is tricky, no navy will be keen on putting several billion dollars and thousands of sailors in peril. Carriers have become too big to fail. As a result, they will probably have to remain at le...
Hassan Rouhani, Irans president, claimed that a new oilfield containing 53bn barrels of crude had been discovered. If true, this would increase Irans proven reserves, already one of the worlds largest, by about a third. Iran has struggled to export o...