经济学人双语阅读：印尼的特氟纶巨头
【经济学人】双语阅读：印尼的特氟纶巨头Business; Face value; Indonesia's Teflon tycoon;商业;商界精英;印尼的特氟纶巨头;Aburizal Bakrie has survived controversy in business and politics;Aburizal Bakrie在商业和政治的论战中双双获胜;Although Aburizal Bakrie, one of Indonesia's most prominent businessmen, lost his job as Indonesia's welfare minister last year, he is still managing to generate lots of political controversy. In October he took the reins of Golkar, the party created by Indonesia's former strongman, Suharto. Now he is trying to reshape the cabinet in his own image, calling for the suspension of the vice-president and the finance minister over their role in the bail-out of a local bank in 2008. Golkar lawmakers spent much of this week interrogating the pair in public hearings.尽管印度尼西亚最卓越的商界人士之一Aburizal Bakrie在去年失去了印尼福利部部长的工作，但是他仍然在设法挑起众多的政治论战。
在十月他掌管了由曾经的印尼巨头Suharto所创立的Golkar党。
现在他正在尝试按照他自己的设想来重组内阁，并要求出于对副总统和财政部长在2008年对当地银行进行优先股分红中的职责考虑应中止他们的职务。
Golkar的立法者这周花了很多时间去听取公众的声音。
Mr Bakrie's family business, meanwhile, continues to pull off improbable feats. In November a consortium it led outmanoeuvred state-owned firms and a local rival to secure a stake in one of the world's biggest copper and gold mines, on the island of Sumbawa. The month before China Investment Corporation, a Chinese sovereign-wealth fund, had lent Bumi Resources, a big coal-mining firm in which the family owns a stake, $1.9 billion.与此同时，Bakrie的家族企业连续取得一系列看似不可能完成的业绩。
在十一月，它所领导的一个联营企业成功战胜了印尼的国有企业以及一家当地竞争对手而赢得一家位于松巴哇岛的全世界最大的金、铜开采企业之一的股份。
而就在上一个月，中国投资有限责任公司——一个主权财富基金借给Bakrie家族控股的一个大型煤矿业开采公司Bumi Resources了19亿美元。
The deals crowned the family business's recovery from near collapse in 2008, when a plunge in the shares of six Bakrie-linked firms prompted the Indonesia Stock Exchange to close for three days. Even before that narrow escape, Mr Bakrie was notable as one of the few tycoons from Suharto's era to have managed to preserve his businesses and political clout despite the Asian crisis of 1997 and the transition to democracy the following year.这些交易使得Bakrie家族成功的从2008年的崩溃中恢复过来。
在那一年，六家Bakrie家族相关的公司股票的暴跌甚至一度使得印尼的证券交易所被迫关闭三天。
而即使是在那九死一生(指08年的危机)之前，作为自Suharto时代以来能够从1997年的亚洲金融危机和次年的民主制过渡中全身而退并保留其商业和政治影响力的极少数的巨头之一，Bakrie依旧是声名显赫的。
Mr Bakrie's continued influence is the cause of much discussion in Jakarta. Bakrie-controlledcompanies cover the breadth of Indonesia's economy, including mining, oil and gas, palm oil, property, telecommunications and finance. So Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's president, stirred concerns about conflicts of interest when he appointed Mr Bakrie as minister with overall responsibility for the economy in 2004. Although he was put in charge of social welfare and public services instead after a reshuffle in 2005, the controversy only grew.Bakrie持续的影响力导致了在雅加达(印尼首都)的很多讨论。
Bakrie控制的公司覆盖了印尼经济的各行各业，包括采矿业、石油和天然气、棕榈油、房地产、电信以及金融等。
因此当印尼的总统Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono在2004年任命Bakrie 作为大臣全权负责经济运作时曾一度为相关利益冲突绞尽脑汁。
尽管Bakrie 在2005年的政府改组后被任命管理印尼的社会福利以及公众服务事业，那些(政治)论战相较以往只是更激烈而已。
In 2006 a devastating mudflow erupted near a site in Java where Lapindo Brantas, a Bakrie-controlled company, was drilling for gas. The mud continues to flow today, and has displaced more than 16,000 people, swamping entire villages, factories and towns in toxic sludge. Lapindo Brantas disavows any responsibility, despite claims that it had failed to use appropriate safety equipment while drilling. It insists the mudflow was triggered by an earthquake three days before—an explanation that has been dismissed by numerous international experts. Lapindo still has not compensated most of those displaced by the mudflow despite twice being ordered to do so by Mr Yudhoyono. A police investigation limped along for more than three years before officials announced last August that they were dropping the case. Soon after a special investigative committee of the House of Representatives, led by a member of Golkar, declared, with little scientific backing, that the mudflow was a natural disaster.在2006年一次毁灭性的泥流突然爆发，且恰好发生在爪哇附近，在那里Bakrie控制的一家公司Lapindo Brantas正在开采天然气。
泥流至今仍在持续，并使得超过16000的民众被迫转移，有毒的泥流淹没了整个村庄、工厂和小镇。
Lapindo Brantas 公司拒绝对此承担任何责任，而仅仅宣称它在开采的过程中确实没有使用安全、合适的工具。
它坚持说这次泥流是为三天前的地震所触发的——而这种解释被众多的国际专家所摒弃。
Lapindo公司至今仍没有为那些因泥流而转移的大多数民众作出补偿，尽管Yudhoyono总统已经两次命令其这么做了。
一个警方的调查有气无力的持续了三年，直到去年八月官方终于宣布他们不再关注此事。
不久之后一个Golkar成员所领导的特别调查委员会——the House of Representatives在缺乏有力科学证据的情况下宣称泥流爆发仅仅是一场自然灾害而已。
Mr Bakrie kept his job through all this. Although he has since left the cabinet, other members of Golkar are still in it. The party remains in the governing coalition despite its spirited attacks on the vice-president and the finance minister, and its support of an investigation of the president's Democrat Party, which have been accused of embezzling government funds.在以上这些事件中Bakrie总能保全他的工作。
VOA听力原文
VOA 听写原文(1)Harvad researcher David Rans said the most successful behavior proved to be cooperation. The groups that rewarded the most earned about twice as much in the game as the groups that rewarded the least. And the more a group punish themselves the lower it's earnings. The group with the most punishment earned 25 percent less than the group with the least punishment .The study appeared last month in the Journal Science. The other study involved children .It was presentd last month in California at a conference on violence and abuse. Reseachers used intelligent tests given to two groups, More than 800 children were ages 2-4 the first time they were tested. More than 700 children were ages 5 to 9.(2)Many people think the search for cleaner energy leads only to renewable resources like sun, wind and water. But it also leads to a fossil fuel(化石燃料). Natural gas is considered the cleanest of the fossil fuels, the fuels created by plant and animal remains over millions of years. Burning it releases fewer pollutants（污染物质）than oil or coal. The gas is mainly methane（沼气，甲烷）. It produces half the carbon dioxide （二氧化碳）of other fossil fuels. So it may help cut the production of carbongases linked to climate change. Russia is first in what are called "proved reserves" of natural gas. The United States is sixth. Over the years, big oil and gas companies recovered much of the easily reached supplies of gas in America. They drilled straight down into formations where gas collects. As these supplies were used up, big drillers looked for similar formations in other countries.(3)Two recent studies have found that punishment is not the best way to influence behavior. One shows that adults are much more cooperative if they work in a system based on rewards. Researchers at Harward University in the United States and Stockholm school of economics in Sweden did the study. They had about two hundred college students play a version of the game known as the prisoners dilemma. The game is based on the attention between the interests of individual and group. The students play in groups of four. Each player could win points for the group so they would all gain equally. But each player could also reward or punish each of the other three players and cost to the punisher.(4)But now the industry is taking a new look. Companies are developing gas supplies trapped in shale rock two to three thousand meters underground. They drill down to the shale, then go sideways and inject high-pressure water, sand or other material into the rock. This causes therock to break, or fracture, releasing the gas. Huge fields of gas shale are believed to lie under theAppalachian Mountains, Michigan and the south-central states. Gas shale exploration is being done mainly by small to medium sized companies. Eric Potter is a program director in the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin.I rememberdo u know that i'm okare there things you wanna saythinking of u night and dayhopping you'll come back and stayi remember when u told mei'll be all rightdon't worryi try and try to understandis all this just a sad goodbyethinking of u night and dayno matter if you'll come and stayi remember when u told mei'll be all rightjust hold mei don't wanna close my eyes tonightmissing u make me cryyour love will give me strengths to carry onyou'll always be my heart and mindso i don't wanna close my eyes tonighti know it's just a miss match in time...why..oh why... miss match in timei try and try to understandis all this just a sad goodbyethinking of u night and dayno matter if you'll come and stayi remember when u told mei'll be all rightjust hold meso i don't wanna close my eyes tonightmissing u make me cryyour love will give me strengths to carry onyou'll always be my heart and mindso i don't wanna close my eyes tonighti know it's just a miss match in time...why..oh why... don't wanna close my eyes tonight.。
On the Origin of the Clustered QSO Metal Absorption Lines
Xiangdong Shi Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
arXiv:astro-ph/95010tro.queensu.ca
WWW: http: //astro.queensu.ca/ shi/
Abstract
Observations show that there is significant clustering of QSO metal absorption lines within the range of velocity dispersion between 200km/sec and 600 km/sec. With a reasonable supernova rate, it is shown that high velocity gases driven by SNe and/or strong stellar winds could explain the clustered absorptions, provided that QSO metal-line absorbers are galactic halos or dwarf galaxies. Rich clusters of galaxies, on the other hand, cannot yield the observed clustering of QSO metal absorption lines. Subject Headings : Galaxies: Quasars: absorption lines—Stars: supernovae
赏析版2013年4月经济学人文章_英汉双语对照_part4
The thawing of relations with the Soviet Union: with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 和苏联的关系解冻，1990年和米哈伊尔•戈尔巴乔夫在一起As Baroness Thatcher at the state opening of Parliament in 20102010年女男爵撒切尔出席国会开幕大典译者：veep[2013.04.13] Sex, drugs and hope 性、药物与希望Schumpeter熊彼特Sex, drugs and hope性、药物与希望How big business fought AIDS in South Africa大型企业如何对抗南非艾滋病Apr 13th 2013 |From the print editionMOST managers extol the power of positive thinking. At the New Vaal colliery in South Africa, however, workers are urged to “stay negative”. This is not because Anglo American, the mining giant that owns the colliery, wants to foster a gloomy attitude among its employees. Rather, it wants them to stay alive.很多经理都赞扬积极思考的力量，但南非新瓦尔河煤矿（the New Vaal）却要求工人“保持消极”。
英美资源集团作为煤矿负责人，不是想给员工营造悲观的气氛，而是让他们活下来。
When Schumpeter visited, the coal mine’s top brass were wearing the canary-yellow shirts of the national football team, part of a promotion to encourage employees to take a voluntary test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Around 80% have done so. No one who was HIV-negative last year has turned positive this year. Early testers are often those with the least reason to be anxious about their status; nonetheless, this is promising.当笔者到达采访时看到，煤矿的高层主管都穿着浅黄色的国家足球队队服，可能是以此鼓励员工自愿接受能引发艾滋病的HIV病毒检查，约有80%的进行了检查。
杜邦公司黑水事件英语作文
杜邦公司黑水事件英语作文In November 2019,a documentary filmBlackwaterwas released around the world,which does not reflect security companies,but describes a lawyer's 20-year struggle with DuPont,the world's largest chemical company,over environmental pollution,and the core of its struggle is a widespread carcinogenic incident caused by a chemical product called perfluorooctanoic acid.Through this war,the world learned that this chemical material,which is widely used in Teflon's coating process,comes into contact with almost everyone in the world.This material is applied to any coating coated with Teflon.Perfluorooctanoic acid is an organic acid in perfluorinated compounds,white crystals at room temperature,mainly used as surfactants and emulsifiers.Perfluorooctanoic acid is difficult to degrade from the environment and has the potential to enter the body through food,air and water.This can lead to reduced fertility,fetal disability,and other immune system disorders.Perfluorooctanoic acid and its alternatives are suspected tobelong to a large class of artificial compounds known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals.These compounds include chemicals used in the production of pesticides,plastics,and gasoline,interfere with human reproduction and metabolism,and cause cancer,thyroid problems,and neurological disorders.。
托福双语阅读素材：Theoili...
托福双语阅读素材：Theoilindustrystrugglestoenterthedigitalage想要提高托福阅读能力，我们一定要在日常生活中有意识地增加英语阅读量，提升语感和熟练度，这其中比较常用也比较方便地一个方式就是利用各类英文报刊杂志文章进行精读与泛读练习。
下面我们来看一篇经济学人文章：石油工业迈向数字时代。
托福双语阅读素材：The oil industry struggles to enter the digital ageOil and technologyData drillingThe oil industry struggles to enter the digital age石油与科技数字钻探石油工业艰难迈向数字时代IT SOUNDS like a spectacular feat of engineering. Employees of Royal Dutch Shell located in Calgary, Canada, recently drilled a well 6,200 miles (10,000km) away in Vaca Muerta, Argentina. In fact, the engineers of the Anglo-Dutch oil major were using computers to perform what they call “virtual drilling”, based on their knowledge of Fox Creek, a shale bed in Alberta, which has similar geological features to Argentina’s biggest shale deposit. They used real-time data sent from a rig in Vaca Muerta to design the well and control the speed and pressure of the drilling. On their second try, they completed the well for $5.4m, down from $15m a few years ago. “It’s the cheapest well we’ve drilled in Argentina,” says Ben van Beurden, Shell’s chief executive.这听上去是一个令人叹为观止的工程壮举(第N次…别老achievement)——身在加拿大卡尔加里(Calgary)的荷兰皇家壳牌公司员工最近在10,000公里之外的阿根廷瓦卡姆尔塔(Vaca Muerta)油田远程钻探了一口油井。
经济学人双语阅读：印尼的特氟纶巨头
【经济学人】双语阅读：印尼的特氟纶巨头Business; Face value; Indonesia's Teflon tycoon;商业;商界精英;印尼的特氟纶巨头;Aburizal Bakrie has survived controversy in business and politics;Aburizal Bakrie在商业和政治的论战中双双获胜;Although Aburizal Bakrie, one of Indonesia's most prominent businessmen, lost his job as Indonesia's welfare minister last year, he is still managing to generate lots of political controversy. In October he took the reins of Golkar, the party created by Indonesia's former strongman, Suharto. Now he is trying to reshape the cabinet in his own image, calling for the suspension of the vice-president and the finance minister over their role in the bail-out of a local bank in 2008. Golkar lawmakers spent much of this week interrogating the pair in public hearings.尽管印度尼西亚最卓越的商界人士之一Aburizal Bakrie在去年失去了印尼福利部部长的工作，但是他仍然在设法挑起众多的政治论战。
外刊改编-六选四(8篇)
（A ）MOST economists might hazard a guess that voiding the bulk of a country’s currency overnight would dent its immediate growth prospects.On November 8th India took this abstruse thought experiment into the real world, scrapping two banknotes which made up 86% of all rupees in circulation. (1) Evidence of themeasure’s costs is mounting, while the benefits look ever more uncertain.(2) For seven weeks queues had snaked around banks, the main way for Indians to exchange their old notes for new ones or deposit them in their accounts. That is over, largely because the window to exchange money closed on December 30th. The number of fresh notes that can be withdrawn from ATMs or bank counters is still curtailed, but the acute cash shortage is abating, at least in big cities.As data trickle through, so is evidence of the economic price paid for demonetisation. Consumers, companies and investors all wobbled in late 2016.Fast-moving consumer goods, usually a reliable growth sector, retrenched by 1-1.5% in November, according to Nielsen, a research group. Bigger-ticket items seem to have been hit harder. (3)A survey of purchasing managers in manufacturing plunged from relative optimism throughout 2016 to the expectation of mild contraction. Firms’ investment proposals fell froman average of 2.4trn rupees ($35bn) a quarter to just 1.25trn rupees in the one just ended, according to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, a data provider. (4)【来源】经济学人2018年一月刊【文章大意】说明文，印度激进的废钞令对各产业造成的消极影响。
3英语阅读-经济学人《Economics》双语版-Foodfirmsandfat-fighters
（2）：食品公司与减肥斗士【翻译交流】Feb 9th 2006From The Economist Global AgendaFood firms and fat-fighters食品公司与减肥斗士Five leading food companies have introduced a labelling scheme for their products in the British market, in an attempt to assuage critics who say they encourage obesity. But consumer groups are unhappy all the same. Is the food industry, like tobacco before it, about to be *engulfed[1]by a wave of lawsuits brought on health grounds?五家业内领先的食品公司采取了一项方案，就是在其投入英国市场的食品上作出标注，力图堵住那些说他们鼓励肥胖的批评人士的嘴。
不过，消费者团体仍然不开心。
食品业会像之前的烟草一样，被卷入一场关乎健康的诉讼之中吗？KEEPING fit requires a combination of healthy eating and regular exercise. On the second of these at least, the world’s food companies can claim to be setting a good example :they have been working up quite a sweat in their attempts to fend off assaults by governments, consumer groups and lawyers who accuse them of peddling products that encourage obesity. This week saw the unveiling of another industry initiative :five leading food producers—Danone, Kellogg, Nestlé, Kraft and PepsiCo—introduced a labelling scheme for the British market which will show “guideline daily amounts” for calories, fats, sugar and salt on packaging. The new labels will start to appear on the firms’ crisps, chocolate bars, cheese slices *and the like[2] over the next few months. A number of other food giants, such as Cadbury Schweppes and Masterfoods, have already started putting guideline labels on their products.将健康的饮食习惯和经常性的锻炼二者结合才可以让身体保持健康。
The Diverse Nature of Intrinsic Absorbers in AGNs
Let us start by defining “intrinsic” absorption in terms of gas that is (or was) part of the overall AGN/host galaxy environment. This definition excludes only very distant, cosmologically intervening material, such as intergalactic clouds or unrelated galaxies. It reminds us that, especially in quasar studies, absorption can occur in a wide range of environments. The rich variety of intrinsic absorbers yields numerous diagnostics of both the AGN phenomenon and the AGN–host galaxy connection. A short list of reasons for studying intrinsic absorption might include the following. • Intrinsic absorbers are a fundamental component of AGN environments. They are common in Type I (broad emission line) AGNs (see below), and might be ubiquitous if the absorbing gas fills only part of the sky as seen from the central continuum source. In addition, the amounts of absorbing gas might be enormous — rivalling or exceeding the mass in the broad emission line region. • Many intrinsic absorbers are involved in AGN outflows. The flows are driven by the same accretion processes that feed the central super-massive black hole (SMBH) and fuel other AGN energetics. The need for accreting matter to expel angular momentum probably means that the wind mass loss rates, M˙ wind, are directly proportional to the mass accretion rate, M˙ acc. • The relationship between outflow and accretion also implies that intrinsic absorbers are connected to the basic physics of SMBH growth and AGN evolution. • Intrinsic absorption that occurs far from the AGN might uniquely measure a variety of regions in the host galaxies, such as the interstellar medium, gas streams in galactic halos, or galactic super-winds driven by starburst activ
经济学人文章摘录32篇（中英对照）
经济学人文章摘录32篇（中英对照）第一篇：经济学人文章摘录32篇(中英对照)【经济学人】双语阅读：律师事务所标价更高收益更少Business 商业报道Law firms 律师事务所Charging more, getting less 标价更高，收益更少Lawyers' biggest customers are discovering that they can haggle 律师的最大客户们发现他们能与律师还价THERE were groans in big companies' legal departments in the mid-2000s, when the fees of America's priciest lawyers first hit 1,000 an hour.当美国最高的律师酬金达到每小时1000美元，20世纪中期，一些大公司的法律部门里开始抱怨连连。
Such rates have since become common at firms with prestige.自此以后，这样的价格在名企变得普遍。
A survey published this week by the National Law Journal found that they now go as high as 1,800.美国法律期刊刊登的一项调查表明，现在的律师费用已经高达1800美元/时，But the general counsels of large businesses are increasingly finding that they can ignore these extravagant rates, and insist on big discounts.但是那些为大公司效力的法律顾问却逐渐发现，他们忽视高额酬金，并坚持较大折扣。
Price-discounting tends to be associated more with used-car lots than with posh law firms.There was a time when a lawyer could submit his bill and be confident of receiving a cheque for the same amount.价格折扣渐渐常见于二手车交易，并非光鲜的律师律师事务所。