【Finance and economics】財經新聞,主要是對相關財經新聞的報道。值得一提的是經濟學人並不純粹是一本專業的財經雜誌,它其實是一本覆蓋了政治,科技,文化,藝術,商業,財經等的綜合雜誌。即使是財經板塊也對讀者非常友好,沒有太多複雜的專業術語,文章中有時候甚至連IPO(initial public offering)這樣的單詞都會拿出來解釋。所以各位不用擔心因為專業知識不夠而讀不懂文章。
【Science and technology】科技板塊,大部分文章長度在500到1500詞之間。文章難度較高,有時候會出現不少專業術語。據説是考研文章的重點題源。
【Books and arts】文化及書籍板塊,主要內容是書評和對一些文化現象的討論。這個板塊的文章往往生詞較多,用詞也偏文學化,想提高詞彙量的同學可以重點精讀此板塊的文章。
The first quarter did look suspicious. Growth in industrial production was the weakest since the depths of the financial crisis; the property market, a pillar of the economy, crumbled. China reported real growth (ie, after accounting for inflation) of 7% year on year in the first quarter, but nominal growth of just 5.8%. The only way to arrive at the higher real figure was to put the GDP deflator, a measure of inflation, at -1.1%. That implied the economy suffered broad-based deflation, a bizarre claim given that consumer prices rose by more than 1% at the same time.
在《經濟學人》種有很多關於經濟走勢的文章,很多時候我們可以借鑑文章中的一些表達,從而用來提煉自己的英文文章。比如説託福和雅思作文,雅思的小作文有一些圖表題,題目要求描述圖表的內容,這些內容往往都會涉及價格走勢,人口變化等等,我們就可以用到《經濟學人》中的一些句式,比如Growth in something was since