Cover:Asia’s suffering

The slump in East Asia was made at home as well as in the West

  CHINA’s lunar new year sees the world’s largest migration, as tens of millions of workers flock home. Deserting for a few days the factories that make the goods that fill

the world’s shops, they surge back to their native villages. This week, however, as they feasted to the deafening rattle of the firecrackers lit to greet the Year of the Ox, their celebrations had an anxious tinge (see article). Many will not have jobs to go back to.  

<The Economist> 2009-01-31

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Cover:Inside the banks

Blank cheques, bankruptcy, nationalisation: the options are dire, but governments must choose between them

“STARTING today,” President Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address from the Capitol, “we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of

remaking America.” In fact his first, urgent task is to remake finance. As Mr Obama spoke in Washington, DC, the markets in New York were sinking under the weight of failing banks despite the promise of a plan from his economic team. A day earlier Britain had put forward its second attempt to get its banks to lend. Others, such as Germany and Italy, may before long need to step in; France, Ireland and Denmark already have.

<The Economist> 2009-01-24

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Cover:Renewing America

SHORTLY after midday on January 20th, Barack Obama will sit for the first time at the desk where the buck stops. The American presidency is always the world’s hardest and most consequential job, but it seems particularly so this month. A global recession of a

severity not seen for perhaps 80 years; a new war in the Middle East and old ones in Africa; missions very far from accomplished in Iraq and Afghanistan; a prickly Russia and a rising China. These international challenges must jostle for the president’s attention alongside noisy domestic concerns like rocketing unemployment, the desperate need for a better health-care system, exploding deficits and failing cities. The burdens, surely, are too many for one man to bear.

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Cover:The hundred years’ war

  WITH luck, the destructive two-week battle between Israel and Hamas may soon draw to an end. But how long before the century-long war between Arabs and Jews in Palestine follows suit? It is hard to believe that this will happen any time soon. Consider: Israel’s

current operation, “Cast Lead”, marks the fourth time Israel has fought its way into Gaza. It almost captured Gaza (behind a pocket containing a young Egyptian army officer called Gamal Abdul Nasser) in 1948, in the war Israelis know as their war of independence. It captured Gaza again in 1956, as part of a secret plan hatched with Britain and France to topple Nasser as Egypt’s president and restore British control of the Suez Canal. It invaded a third time during the six-day war of 1967—and stayed there for 38 years, until withdrawing unilaterally three and a half years ago.

<The Economist> 2009-01-10

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    虽然只是据说，而且很多人认为《经》杂志的许多角度并不是特别客观，因而并不看好这样的方法，说直接真题比这个好。但是就阿修本人来说，看点老外的文章即使不能起到立竿见影的效果，但是潜移默化当中会对老外文化，特别是词汇以及语法方面有很大裨益。虽然说看电影也据说能达到相同效果~殊不知多少仁人志士都在盯着屏幕下面一行而关注着剧情发展。最对最多，也是学会了几句老外的Damnit。因此阿修认为对于外国文章的阅读应该以这样的杂志为起点，虽然生词量较大，而且很多句子深意不了解，但是逐渐的融会贯通，逐字逐句翻译，总会对自己的英语，特别是应试水平有点提高的。

    基于以上几点，即日起阿修将不定期更新《The Economist》英文杂志，内容大致为网站内容的整合，这是目前我能找到最全的资源了，如果有更好的，一定第一时间分享出来。

    关键的一点是，资源来源于网络，版权归原作者所有。

<The Economist> 2009-01-03

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