Sir Stephen Cleobury, musical director for 37 years of King's College, Cambridge, died on November 22nd, aged 70 斯蒂芬克劳伯里爵士曾任剑桥大学国王学院音乐总监37年，他于11月22日去世，享年70岁。 Snow seldom falls in...
Prices, according to economists, are determined by supply and demand, acting like the twin blades of a pair of scissors. 经济学家认为，价格是由供需决定的，就像剪刀的双刃一样。 But that is not the whole story. In many times...
Still more threatening is Irans nuclear programme. Mr Trump pulled America out of the agreement with Iran, signed in 2015 with six world powers, which limited its ability to get a bomb. He argued that he would be able to negotiate a better deal which...
And yet Irans thirst for revenge is surely not slaked. Even if they avoid overt forms of aggression, the Revolutionary Guards are likely to pursue other tactics, including cyber-attacks, suicide- bombings by proxies, assassinations of American offici...
Leaders 来源于《社论》版块 Masterstroke or madness? 妙举还是愚蠢的行为？ Donald Trump wants to curb Irans aggression. The question is whether he has gone about it the right way 唐纳德特朗普想要遏制伊朗的侵略。问题是...
In his time as a Treasury official in the 1960s he had laboured to maintain the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, which had built an international monetary system round pegging the dollar to gold at $35 an ounce. When this began to founder he went alo...
Both groups hope to get around these complications, but in different ways. 两组人都希望避免这些问题，但使用的方式不同。 The researchers at Berkeley, led by Omar Yaghi, announced their results last year. Omar Yaghi领导的伯克利...
If you live in a desert, maintaining a supply of fresh water is a challenge. 如果你生活在沙漠中，保持淡水的供应是个挑战。 One answer is desalination, but that needs a source of brine from which to remove the salt 一个答案是海...
Babbel, which makes a popular language- learning app, has collected a host of climate-related neologisms from European languages. Flygskam is perhaps the most likely to be permanently adopted into English: flight-shame, from Swedish, was popularised...
Books amp; arts 来源于《图书和艺术》版块 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Climate-speak 关于气候的表达 Of train-boasts, plane-shame and electric automobiles 火车、飞机和电动汽车 Identifying shifts in the Earths climate requi...
