https://espresso.economist.com/7436b0dc99f8aed11026252aeade1a3a
-- Dec 4th 2018
Incense investment: Vatican startups
- Vatican 梵蒂岡
Ten new companies, selected from 400 applications, gather today at the Vatican to pitch to religious leaders and philanthropists.
- pitch 爭(zhēng)取支持
- philanthropist 博愛主義者笙纤；慈善家
The “Laudato Si’ Challenge”, inspired by Pope Francis’s 2015 eponymous encyclical, aims to help startups that offer solutions to the problems generated by migration.
- eponymous 同名的
- encyclical 教皇通諭
One company, Leaf, is developing blockchain technology to connect the unbanked to the global economy through their mobile phones.
- blockchain 區(qū)塊鏈
Chatterbox offers language lessons by refugees, while DoctHERs connects female doctors in Pakistan to “underserved communities”.
- refugees 避難者仁锯；逃亡者
- underserved 服務(wù)水平低下的圆米；服務(wù)水平低下；服務(wù)不足
Italy’s geography has made it a first port of call for migrants making their way from north Africa to Europe.
- call for 呼吁户辞；主張；需要；接(某人)
- make one's way 前進(jìn)构哺；行進(jìn)；走去
Successive governments have failed to promote their integration in society.
- Successive 連續(xù)的战坤；接連的曙强；相繼的
Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing Northern League and interior minister in Italy’s coalition government, continues to campaign vigorously against immigration.
- right-wing 右翼的；右派的
- coalition government (兩黨或多黨）聯(lián)合政府
- interior minister 內(nèi)政部長(zhǎng)途茫；內(nèi)務(wù)部長(zhǎng)碟嘴；內(nèi)務(wù)大臣
- campaign against 針對(duì)……的運(yùn)動(dòng)
- vigorously 精神旺盛地；精力充沛地囊卜；用力地
A big test of today will be if startups can help where the state is failing.
