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The millennium of the West
Dec 23rd 1999
From The Economist print edition
THIS has been the millennium of the West: first Europe, later its offshoots too, above all the giant one in North America. It has exported worldwide its soldiers, missionaries and empire-builders, its religion and its ideas, its arts and its sciences, its goods and its technology, its political and business systems, even its principal currency.
这是西方世界的千年：先是欧洲，再是欧洲的分支，其中最庞大的位于北美。它向世界各地输出了士兵，传道士和帝国缔建者，输出了它的宗教和思想、艺术与科学，商品和技术，政治与商业机制，甚至它的主要货币。
Like it or not (and much of the world often has not), for the moment the West has triumphed.
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早上醒来，发现下雪了。难怪昨天天寒地冻，我从学校回家一路转乘地铁公车，走进小区时双腿已经僵硬。本来想提前回学校调整一下状态，没想到澡堂食堂都不开，我们专用的教室又恰逢整修，于是又悲壮地踏上了回家的征程。
春节前，有一天不小心登上一个陌生的网站，中间的一行大字是：eat right, be active, have fun.一下子好喜欢，把它放到QQ签名里。暗暗告诉自己说，要结束“冬眠”期，活跃一点了。接下来到出国前的几个月，虽然还是会很忙，但我决心安排更多的日程，不要一直这么单调。所以昨天在接到某杂志邀请出镜的电话时，我在还没搞清楚某杂志是什么的时候就答应了。呵呵。
几乎过几天就会看一下火火姐的博客，因为她实在是多产。有时候看着她那带着调侃，充满各种自创语气词的文字时，我就想象她自己开着小车风风火火地闯在京城的样子。泼辣，总是咋咋呼呼，自称和被朋友们称为“二百九”（250+38+2），仗义得比爷们还爷们。一位优秀的成功的律师。这样很
Investment banks
投资银行
The $2 bail-out
2美元收购
Mar 19th 2008 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
The wreck and rescue of America's fifth-biggest Wall Street bank
AS PRANKS go, it oozed vitriol. On March 17th, while employees at Bear Stearns were coming to terms with the implosion of their once-venerable investment bank, one of them stuck a $2 note to the revolving doors of the firm's midtown-Manhattan headquarters. That was the amount, per share, that Bear had fetched in a fire sale to JPMorgan Chase a day earlier, when the Federal Reserve was rushing to secure a deal before the markets opened on Monday. A year ago the shares had topped $170.
恶作剧结束，留下的是辛辣讽刺。3月17日，当贝尔斯登的员工们开始接受他们曾经备受尊崇的公司破产的事实，其中一名员工将两美元纸币贴在位于曼哈顿闹市该公司总部的旋转门上。这是3月16日贝尔斯登与摩根大通达成的大甩卖中每股的价格，这笔交易是美联储赶在周一开市之前
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A normal industry?
航空业：正常产业？
Feb 14th 2008
2008年2月14日
From The Economist print edition
经济学人
ONE by one, the obstacles along the runway to what could be one of the most transforming deals in the world's air-transport industry are being cleared. If, within the next few days or weeks, executives at Delta and Northwest succeed in hammering out a common labour contract with their 11,000 pilots, the airlines will declare their intention to merge, subject to regulatory approval.
一个接一个地，世界空运产业潜在的最具转化力的交易所面临的障碍正在被清除。如果在未来的几天或几周内，Delta航空公司和西北航空公司的执行官们能成功与他们麾下11，000位飞行员就共同劳工合同达成一致，这两家公司将宣布他们合并的意向，并提交监管部门批准。
Were the deal to go ahead, it would almost certainly trigger similar mergers between the rest of the “big six” American network carriers, with United and Continental likely to
基本上按视译的速度翻，翻完就贴上来。
Poles apart
天渊之别
Feb 14th 2008 | HONG KONG
2008年2月14日 香港
From The Economist print edition
经济学人
THE Chinese invented the abacus; India invented the binary and
the decimal systems. So both nations are deft at playing with
numbers. All the more reason to look carefully at their
governments' finances.
中国人发明了算盘；印度人发明了二进制和十进制。所以两个国家都善于和数字打交道。因此更应当对它们政府的财政多加注意。
According to official estimates, China's government ran a budget
deficit of around 1% last year. But some e
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辞掉了笔译的兼职，专心准备中期考和出国。为了练手，每周翻译四篇文章，中到英两篇，英到中两篇。这是第一篇，原文没有保存。翻完之后对照了一下ECO的版本。
http://ecocn.blogbus.com/logs/15646242.html
电子化官僚
2008年2月14日
经济学家
通过网络，政府应能大大改善服务公民的效率。但Edward Lucas认为，在此方面虽然大力投入，却收效甚微。
十二月凌晨六点十五分的伦敦中心，寒风刺骨，漆黑一片，闭路电视虽无处不在，此时却也乏善可摄。 但在印度特派使节团之外，109个人正疲惫地等待着签证处开放。David Robb 和他的朋友排在第一。 为了保证能获得签证去果阿度一个计划中的假期，他们从凌晨三点就挤在防风墙后面的睡袋里等待了。排队的人们几乎都和他一样，已经用信用卡在网上订好了机票甚至整个假期。那些电子信号几乎以光速传送信息——比这些瑟瑟发抖、排队等待签证的的人们可要快上几十亿倍。Robb先生对印度签证系统的评价很简洁：“
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