经济学人经典词句汇总

1、经济学人经典词句汇总考研特刊类1. Copying birds may save aircraft fuel.向鸟一样飞可能会节省燃油。Copying birds is a dream of my childhood.2.The high intelligence of Ashkenazi德系犹太人 Jews may be a result of their persecuted受迫害的 past.The killed performance of Beethoven may be a result of his persecuted past.3. Free access to scient

2、ific results is changing research practices.Free access to education is improving the overall level of a society.4. Their complacency 自满大意 may cost them dear.Your complacency will cost you dear.5. Fish stocks are dropping rapidly. Predators are falling fastest.Forests are dropping rapidly. Animals a

3、re falling fastest.6. It is time to stand up for the alphabetically disadvantaged处于不利地位的.为受字母表顺序所困的弱势群体说话。It is time to stand up for the gender disadvantaged.7. It seems that oil-price shocks are less shocking than they used to be.It seems that unemployment shocks are less shocking than they used to

4、 be.8. Astonishing falls in the fertility生育率 rate are bringing with them big benefits.Astonishing falls in costs are bringing with industries big benefits.9. Britain has had an easy ride on cutting carbon emissions.The university has an easy ride on cutting tuitions.10. London reaches for the stars

5、and prepares for the next property boom.China reaches for the stars and prepares for the next property boom.2010/11/8 1.Americans are growing warier谨慎 and gloomier悲观The environment is growing dirtier.2.With the Anglican Communion on the verge边缘of schism,分裂 can Rowan Williams learn anything from John

6、 Major?With the nature on the verge of schism, can our students do something to change it?圣公会分裂在即，罗万威廉姆斯是否能从约翰梅杰那里学到什么？3. Shop-floor lighting 工厂照明灯4. The idea arose由产生 because of the perplexing使人困惑的，令人费解的 behaviour of the women who assembled装配 relays 继电器and wound 缠绕coils卷 of wire金属丝 in the Hawthorne

7、 plant.The idea arouse because of the perplexing problem of environmental pollution.5. It did not matter what was done; so long as something was changed, productivity rose.It does not matter what will be done, so long as attitude is changed, efficiency will rise.6. An awareness that应该注意的是 they were

8、being experimented upon seemed to be enough to alter workers behaviour by itself.7. Workers tended to beaver away 努力工作for the first few days of the working week in any case, before hitting a plateau顶峰 and then slackening off.懈怠An awareness that workers tend to beaver away for the few days of the wor

9、king week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slacking off.8. For something so influential and intuitively appealing有感染力的, it turns out that the Hawthorne effect is remarkably异常的 hard to pin down证实.For something so influential and intuitively appealing, it turns out that the theory is rem

10、arkably hard to pin down.2010/11/9 1.Accounting会计 rules are under attack受到攻击. Standard-setters should defend捍卫 them. Politicians and banks should back off后退1. The country is under attack. Politicians should defend it. The common should back off.2. In public, bankers have been blaming themselves for

11、their troubles. Behind the scenes台下面，they have been taking aim at someone else: the accounting standard-setters.2. In public, you have been blaming yourself for your troubles.Behind the scenes, you have been taking aim at someone else: your classmates.3. Their rules, moan抱怨 the banks, have forced th

12、em to report enormous losses, and its just not fair.3. Never moan your fate as the enormous losses in wealth. 4. Bankers lobbying游说 now seems to be working. 4. The pills that I ate now seem to be working.5.The details may be arcane神秘的，晦涩难解的，秘密的, but the dependence of standard-setters, essential to p

13、roper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.5. The economists which are essential to proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.6. After a bruising 十分激烈的 encounter with Congress, Americas Financial Accounting Standards Board(FASB) rushed through 匆匆通过 rule changes.6. A

14、fter a bruising encounter with their rival, they rushed through the first match.7. These gave banks more freedom to use models to value illiquid assets and more flexibility in recognizing losses on long-term assets in their income statements.收益表7. Students should be gave more freedom to control thei

15、r daily life and more flexibility in balancing their study and life.8. Bob Herz, the FASBs chairman, decried 谴责 those who “impugn怀疑 our motives”.8. People are likely to decry those who impugn their motives.9. The IASB says it does not want to be “piecemeal”支离破碎的, but the pressure to fold屈服 when it completes its overhaul修订 of rules later this year is strong.9. The chairman said the country does not want be “piecemeal”, but the pressure to support when it faced the army of the rival was strong.10. A European commissioner warned the IASB that it did “not live in a po