Momentum in economies including the US and India has been picking up in recent months, helping stoke optimism that global growth in 2024 will modestly outpace last year’s reading, according to research for the Financial Times.
英国《金融时报》的研究显示，近几个月来，美国和印度等经济体的增长势头一直在加快，这助长了人们的乐观情绪，即2024年全球经济增长将略微超过去年。
A gauge of the performance of the US economy, taking in measures of confidence, financial markets and real activity, has recovered to its highest levels since mid-2022, providing a bright spot amid a largely lacklustre global economic backdrop.
一项衡量美国经济表现的指标（包括信心、金融市场和实际活动）已恢复至2022年年中以来的最高水平，在全球经济基本低迷的背景下提供了一个亮点。
India has seen a similar pick-up, according to the latest edition of the twice-yearly Brookings-FT Tracking Index for the Global Economic Recovery, or Tiger.
根据一年公布两次的布鲁金斯学会(Brookings)-英国《金融时报》全球经济复苏追踪指数(TIGER)的最新版本，印度也出现了类似的回升。
——本文2024年4月15日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为US and India stoke hopes of global growth in 2024
Kristalina Georgieva has won a second five-year term as IMF managing director, ahead of the start of the fund’s spring meetings in Washington next week.
克里斯塔利娜•格奥尔基耶娃(Kristalina Georgieva)已赢得其作为国际货币基金组织(IMF)总裁的第二个五年任期。该组织本周将在华盛顿举行春季会议。
Georgieva, who has been in the role since the autumn of 2019, was the sole candidate for the position. However, it was only after European leaders signalled that they would endorse her last month that her candidacy was assured.
2019年秋季就任IMF总裁的格奥尔基耶娃，是该职位的唯一候选人。然而，直到欧洲领导人上月表态支持她之后，她的候选资格才得到确定。
The Bulgarian economist faced controversy in 2021 over her role in a scandal relating to her time at the World Bank, with an internal inquiry accusing her of directing efforts to artificially boost China’s ranking in the lender’s influential annual Doing Business report.
这位保加利亚经济学家曾在2021年面临争议，涉及她在世界银行(World Bank)任职期间卷入的一起丑闻。一项内部调查指控，在世行编制其有影响力的年度营商环境报告(Doing Business)期间，她曾授意工作人员人为提高中国的排名。
——本文2024年4月15日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为Kristalina Georgieva to head IMF for a second term
Seven-year-old Nadia Nizinkiewicz is thrilled about the Polish government’s decision to remove homework from her schooling. In fact, “everybody in my class is very happy,” she tells me while colouring patterns in her notebook. “Some of our homework is very difficult.” She is excited about instead spending more time in the park “playing berek (the Polish version of tag) with my friends”.
7岁的纳迪娅•尼津凯维奇(Nadia Nizinkiewicz)对波兰政府决定取消家庭作业感到兴奋不已。事实上，“我们班的每个人都很开心，”她一边在笔记本上涂色，一边告诉我，“我们的一些作业很难。”她很高兴能在公园里花更多的时间“和我的朋友们玩berek（波兰版的捉人游戏）”。
Since taking office in December, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has launched a series of reforms, in part to dismantle the state apparatus built up by the previous government of the rightwing Law and Justice (PiS) party.
自去年12月上任以来，波兰总理唐纳德•图斯克(Donald Tusk)发起了一系列改革，部分目的是拆除右翼法律与正义党(PiS)前政府建立的国家机器。
Late last year, Tusk’s government announced a 30 per cent salary increase for teachers, who have long complained about their working conditions. His education ministry is also changing the syllabus, for instance, cutting the number of hours for religious studies classes. Some Polish history and literature that had been promoted under PiS’s ultranationalist and conservative agenda will be removed from classrooms, notably works by Polish Pope John Paul II.
去年年底，图斯克领导的政府宣布为教师加薪30%，这些教师长期以来一直抱怨自己的工作条件。他的教育部也在改变教学大纲，例如，减少宗教研究课程的时数。在法律与正义党的极端民族主义和保守主义议程下推广的一些波兰历史和文学内容将被从课堂上移除，尤其是波兰籍教皇约翰•保罗二世(Pope John Paul II)的作品。
——本文2024年4月14日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为Poland’s battle over homework
The other day I met a British academic who said something about artificial intelligence that made my jaw drop.
前几天，我遇到了一位英国学者，他关于人工智能的观点让我惊讶得张大了嘴巴。
The number of students using AI tools like ChatGPT to write their papers was a much bigger problem than the public was being told, this person said.
这位人士表示，使用ChatGPT等人工智能工具撰写论文的学生数量比公众所了解的要多得多。
AI cheating at their institution was now so rife that large numbers of students had been expelled for academic misconduct — to the point that some courses had lost most of a year’s intake. “I’ve heard similar figures from a few universities,” the academic told me.
他们学校的人工智能作弊现象如此严重，以至于大量学生因学术不端被开除，一些课程甚至失去了一年的大部分新生。“我从其他几所大学也听说过类似的情况。”这位学者告诉我。
——本文2024年4月14日发布于FT中文网，英文原题为ChatGPT essay cheats are a menace to us all
