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"I'm not comfortable in my chair with such a crew," says the captain of a cargo vessel in the South Atlantic en route from Bermuda to Singapore. He is eight months into a four-month contract, and a...

“和这么一群船员在一起，我坐在椅子上都难受，”船长说，他是这艘从百慕大到新加坡的南大西洋货船的船长。他签的是为期四个月的合同，现在已逾期八个月了，几乎船上所有船员的工作时长至少都是合同规定时间的两倍。 他希望新加坡能够接受事实，即几个...

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Science & technology. Sports equipment. Getting a leg up. New running shoes could help smash a string of Olympic records. Platform shoes are back in fashion, at least in athletics. Many of the l...

科技板块 体育用品 抢占上风 新型跑鞋有望打破一系列奥运纪录 厚底鞋又开始流行了，至少在田径场上是这样。在7月23日开幕的东京奥运会上，许多长跑运动员都将穿着一双特别炸眼的厚底运动鞋抵达起跑线。这种新款鞋将不仅仅是一种时尚宣言，...

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There are competing theories for the inverse relationship; many date from the late 1970s and early 1980s. A paper written by Franco Modigliani and Richard Cohn in 1979 put it down to "money illusio...

相反关系中存在各种竞争理论；其中很多要追溯到20世纪70年代末至20世纪80年代。1979年，弗朗哥·莫迪利亚尼和理查德·科恩的一篇论文将其归因于“货币幻觉”：通货膨胀上升导致股价下降，因为投资者根据较高名义债券收益率贴现未来收益。 ...

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In place where it has been long absent, it is hard to remember what a curse inflation is. In other places, it is hard to forget it. Take Zimbabwe. In 2008 it suffered an inflation rate in the squil...

在长期没有通货膨胀的地方，很难记得通货膨胀诅咒是什么。在其他地方，则很难忘记。例如，津巴布韦。在2008年，津巴布韦遭遇巨额通货膨胀。每隔几周价格就翻一番，然后是每隔几天。 钞票就像是五彩纸屑。有些人转而把股票作为一种价值储存手段。周...

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Warner has arranged a digital-only release for "Scoob!", which was due in theatres on May 15th. Paramount has sold "The Lovebirds" to Netflix. Even Disney, which does better at the box office than ...

华纳公司已经安排发行数字版《史酷比狗》，该片本应于5月15日在影院上映。派拉蒙影业将《爱情鸟》卖给了网飞。就连票房收入超过其他任何电影公司的迪士尼也决定跳过电影院，让《阿特米斯的奇幻历险》登陆其Disney+流媒体服务。这些决定都是由疫情导...

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The lights are off in many Florida businesses. But after dark, the glow of the Ocala Drive-In's 90-foot screen can be seen from a quarter of a mile down the highway. With half the parking spaces...

佛罗里达州的许多公司都熄灯了。但天黑后，从四分之一英里外的高速公路上就能看到Ocala汽车露天电影院90英尺高的屏幕。因为社交隔离，在其7英亩的地块上，有一半的停车位被栅栏隔开，Ocala的空间可容纳240辆车——且每晚都满座。其所有者约翰...

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Labour markets in Europe. Pain relief. The successes of furlough schemes—and their side effects. So impressive is Germany's trading prowess that when the coronavirus pandemic struck, it even ...

欧洲的劳动力市场 已止痛 休假计划的成功及其负面影响 德国的贸易能力十分惊人，在新冠肺炎袭击之时竟然还能挖掘新的出口商品：即它的“短时工作计划”，或者叫“缩时工作制”。为了防止封锁期间出现大规模的失业并支持工人的收入，今年多数经...

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A grand supply agreement between America, Saudi Arabia and Russia might boost the oil price, but only temporarily. "The price war has become largely irrelevant," says Ben Luckock of Trafigura, a tr...

美国、沙特阿拉伯和俄罗斯之间的一项重大供应协议可能会推高油价，但只是暂时的。贸易公司托克集团的本·拉科克表示：“价格战基本上已无关紧要。”他认为，现在沙特的石油生产似乎远不如流行病对石油需求的历史性破坏重要。Covid-19正以如此惊人的速...