一、Justin分享他最喜欢的《经济学人》七大精彩版块（直播笔记）
- Leaders
- Essay
- Special report
- Books and arts
- Graphic Detail （最新版块）
- Obituary
- Christmas specials
1. Leaders (editorials)
特点
5篇文章，1页左右。每周一上午开选题会leaders topics pitching，每个版块负责人提议leaders主题，讨论后确定5个主题。
不能单独存在，必须在其它版块至少有一篇文章加强它的论证。镇刊之宝。
Justin阅读建议：
注意文章如何具体解释一个事件的背景，如何做有洞见的分析，并给出解决方案。
精彩文章推荐：
The right to die (2015) 教科书式的论证文章;
Let them wed (for gay marriage);
Out with the long (所有单词都是单音节词，炫技);
IBM's centenary (创刊100周年纪念);
A manifesto (创刊175周年纪念)
2. Essay 不定期出现。
Justin阅读建议：
关注怎样组织长文的结构，充分说理，并使用可视化数据增强文章论证的。
GRE写作难点在于缺乏知识的积累，可以通过阅读这个版块来积累知识，学会如何表述观点。
精彩文章推荐：
The slumps that shaped modern finance
What's gone wrong with democracy
Reinventing liberalism for the 21st century
3. Special report
2018.11.17 Special report: Competition 互联网竞争
2018.10.27 Special report: Australia
有意思的特点
- 一般针对一个国家或地区（Australia, Spain, Gulf, Germany）或主题（市场竞争、医疗制度、人工智能、经济衰退、美国民主党人）进行多角度报道和分析
- 写作周期长；引用多本专著，期刊，国际组织，投行，咨询公司报告，采访多名学者，分析师，从业者（报告末附sources and acknowledgements）
Justin阅读建议：
选择感兴趣的国家或话题，用几个小时完成阅读，学习TE是怎样通过选择，引用，概况相关参考资料来报道和佐证自己的观点。尤其适合有严肃学术写作需求的读者。
4. Books and arts
least understood. Read something else.
有意思的特点：
- 主编：Fiammetta Rocco 文笔优美、观点独到、偶尔犀利
- 不定期有纽约，伦敦等城市新上映的话剧的剧评和画展、艺术展评论
- 每2-3周有一篇Johnson语言专栏文章（Lane Greene）
- 每年12月有一期会有年终好书推荐和过去一年TE编辑和记者自己出版的书
问题：今年的TE书评版块，推荐书和自家书的语言风格有什么不同？
Justin阅读建议：
学习TE怎样选取书评的角度，用简介、准确的语言作评论的。赏析优美的语言。
精彩文章推荐：
Hot town: New York is brought to life in a sprawling debut novel
City on Fire. By Garth Risk Hallberg. Knopf; 944 pages; $30. Jonathan Cape; £20.
NEW YORK in the late 1970s was coming apart at the seams. People would be strung out in broad daylight, tottering down streets strewn with spent Pall Malls and “nickelbags like punctured lungs”. The Bronx was burning, graffiti spread like kudzu and muggers owned the parks after dark. Donna Summer oozed out of radios (“Love to love you babeee…”) while Patti Smith’s punk sermons drew acolytes downtown. The city was broke and on its way to hell. Or maybe it was already there.
文章链接：https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2015/10/31/hot-town
5. Graphic Detail
Justin阅读建议：
学习TE怎样设计数据可视化，并用5-7短话结合图表解释清楚一个现象的。尤其适合准备雅思A类考试小作文和日常有数据分析和写作需求的读者。
6. Obituary
版块特点
Editor: Ann Wroe
- 文笔优美、用词精准、长句较多、语言富有诗意
- 不到1000词写活一个有意思的人（如：单田芳、Stan Lee、英国江湖大盗）
- TE记者公认的“最值得读的版块”
- 偶尔话题不是写人（鹦鹉Alex, 奥巴马的停顿、英国铸钟工厂）
- 一篇里面写2个人或7个人
Justin阅读建议
学习Ann Wroe 怎样刻画人物、讲故事，写作机构、开头和结尾的写法、人物经历和细节的筛选、精准的动词和名词的实用。享受诗一般的语言。
精彩文章推荐
Whether in public or private she spoke, deeply and calmly, out of all the wrong ever done to blacks generally, and to her personally; out of all the wrong done to women generally, and to her personally. And then she soared above it.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
There was sorrow in her, strong and deep and mighty as that river Momma had sung about; but also the girlish, unconstrained laughter of a woman who, in her pristine inner self, could not be hurt at all.
文章链接：https://www.economist.com/obituary/2014/06/07/maya-angelou
7. Christmas specials
给读者的特别礼物
有意思的特点：
- TE记者和编辑按照自己的兴趣提前认领，花数月精心采访、阅读、写作而成
- 话题无所不包（如语言：土耳其语、冰岛语；游记：西伯利亚、巴黎；文化：超级马里奥、囚犯纹身、啤酒、同性恋酒吧、身份认同；历史：维也纳、英国、东欧）
Justin阅读建议
Read for fun and enjoy!
二、我最喜欢读的《经济学人》版块有哪些？
- Leaders (每周必读)：一周热点事件评论，每篇都是精华文章，值得持续关注某些事件，并逐渐形成自己对事件的深度理解，如英国脱欧问题，the best way out of the Brexit mess, The truth about no deal, Into the endgame, Selling chequers, etc.
- 阅读leaders中选取文章的深度长文，可能在briefing, 也可能在其它section. 两篇文章一起阅读，注意比较不同点，加深对话题的理解。如Into the endgame (leaders), Exit music (Britain).
Sally的行动计划：
- 每周精读leaders及相关长文两篇文章、积累亮点词汇表达（用excel表格总结十词十句）、分析段落架构和逻辑推理、并尝试复述文章核心观点（比较有挑战）。
- 听读结合。早晨和上班路上听TE App音频（有时候no connection）和每日英语听力中的音频文章。
- 欣赏Obituary的语言美和人物美。
- 持续关注Britain和China两个版块。
I renewed my subscription of the Economist in November 2018 and reading it tops my 2019 New Year's Resolution list. The primary aim of reading the Economist is to deepen my understanding of global hot topics, including Brexit, Sino-US competition, the advancement of AI, develop my capacities in critical analysis and learn to appreciate the beautiful English language. My 2018 will end with great momentum and I am looking forward to an even more fruitful and hopeful 2019.
