【Finance and economics】财经新闻,主要是对相关财经新闻的报道。值得一提的是经济学人并不纯粹是一本专业的财经杂志,它其实是一本覆盖了政治,科技,文化,艺术,商业,财经等的综合杂志。即使是财经板块也对读者非常友好,没有太多复杂的专业术语,文章中有时候甚至连IPO(initial public offering)这样的单词都会拿出来解释。所以各位不用担心因为专业知识不够而读不懂文章。
【Science and technology】科技板块,大部分文章长度在500到1500词之间。文章难度较高,有时候会出现不少专业术语。据说是考研文章的重点题源。
【Books and arts】文化及书籍板块,主要内容是书评和对一些文化现象的讨论。这个板块的文章往往生词较多,用词也偏文学化,想提高词汇量的同学可以重点精读此板块的文章。
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《经济学人》种有很多关于经济走势的文章,很多时候我们可以借鉴文章中的一些表达,从而用来提炼自己的英文文章。比如说托福和雅思作文,雅思的小作文有一些图表题,题目要求描述图表的内容,这些内容往往都会涉及价格走势,人口变化等等,我们就可以用到《经济学人》中的一些句式,比如Growth in something was since