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1、来自剑峰，公众号：经济学人赏析1. If Mr Yanukovych clings on, weakened at home and ostracised abroad, Mr Putin will be content, for he will have another dependent leader to add to his collection of pliable clients.2. Fiscal shame may help prevent a fiscal fright.3. Up-to-date information on these fiscal lifelines i
2、s not easy to come by. But their size can be inferred from other ratios presented in the provincial audit reports.4. But the days of anger and recrimination have been forgotten.5. By 2010 the number had risen more than tenfold thanks to a huge expansion in admissions to universities and technical co
3、lleges since the beginning of the century.6. The interest in membership is a byproduct of the expansion of college enrolment, which has created a glut of graduates in the job market.7. In competition for jobs at state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which are among the most coveted of all, a lack of party
4、 membership appears to be no bar.8. But meritocracy extends only so far: the party still keeps the top slots for its own.9. That could be a recognition by SOEs that ability trumps political loyalty for entry-level jobs.10. Chinese directors and officials were ecstatic.11. Mr Diao is hopeful his film
5、can do the improbable: thrill viewers at home and abroad, pass Chinese censors and stay true to his artistic vision.12. The opening scenes depict dismembered body parts tumbling along a coal chute.13. A UN report accuses North Korea of “unspeakable human-rights abuses and hints at Chinas complicity
6、in some of them14. prisoners were forced to forage for food in the wild 15. It interviewed another 240 victims confidentially (many fear reprisals on family members still in North Korea).16. It includes a catalogue of cruelties meted out by the North Korean regime to its main targets:17. the fiercen
7、ess of its condemnation. It describes a totalitarian state that is without parallel in the contemporary world.18. North Korea has flatly rejected the UNs accusations, just as it continues to deny the existence of its network of prison camps.19. Although sceptics argue that the report amounts to litt
8、le more than a call for more engagement (including inter-Korean dialogue and humanitarian aid), it may help to push human rights higher up the agenda.20. The American government will now no longer be able to prioritise one issue over the other,21. China has a visceral dislike of human-rights investi
9、gations.22. It fears that condoning the exposure of other countries abuses might invite scrutiny of its own.23. One is that the Chinese public might step up criticism of their governments support for the North.24. such issues might prompt Mr Kim to become more bellicose.25. And the viral nature of i
10、ts appeal means it has achieved all this without spending a penny on marketing.26. entrepreneurs can create globe-spanning businesses on shoestring budgets.27. Indeed, WhatsApps success in many ways mirrors that of Facebook itself, which came from nowhere to dominate social networking.28. Recently,
11、however, Facebook has been losing some of its cool, especially among younger users.29. That may explain why the famously paranoid Mr Zuckerberg is willing to pay a kings ransom for a company that might ultimately eclipse his own creation.30. Mr Koum, who has a well-known aversion to collecting peopl
12、es data and plastering advertising over his app, seems an odd bedfellow for Facebook.31. The half optionseemingly kept alive as a sop to Boris Johnson, Londons mayoris to shut Heathrow and build a giant modern airport east of the capital.32. In big cities business is down at many of the best private
13、 clubs and restaurants.33. Meanwhile, the campaign for official frugality presses on.34. ON THE night of January 30th 700m viewers will see in the year of the horse by watching the “Spring Festival Gala on Chinese television, a four-hour parade of song, dance and a traditional form of two-man comic
14、repartee called xiangsheng. Popular35. ON THE night of January 30th 700m viewers will see in the year of the horse by watching the “Spring Festival Gala on Chinese television, a four-hour parade of song, dance and a traditional form of two-man comic repartee called xiangsheng. Popular opinion among
15、the increasingly sophisticated urban populace is that the programme is cheesy and the jokes lame.36. Fodder for jokes ranges from the universalcity life, losers looking for a girlfriendto the latest social issues such as unaffordable housing.37. Topics for jokes include Chinas uncouth nouveaux riche
16、s and food-safety scandals.38. Politics can be hinted at but only obliquely:39. Popular anger against medical staff sometimes spills over.40. One of the main reasons for such hostility is the high price of medicines and the corruption that contributes to it.41. Yet a recent spate of scandals involving public hospitals
