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2016年10月经济学人补充译文2：射杀大象?Global inequality?全球不平等Charting globalisation’s discontents?绘出全球化的满腹牢骚Sep 17th 2016 | From the print edition?globalisation [,gl?ub?laizei??n] n.全球化，=globalization;?THE “elephant chart” began life in 2012, hidden in the middle of a World Bank working paper by Branko Milanovic, an authority on global inequality.?It turned a few heads?in the New York Times in 2014, then?graced?Mr Milanovic’s well-received book on global inequality earlier this year. Somewhere along the way it acquired its name, which helped it?stampede?across social media, brokers’ notes and even a?ministerial?speech this spring and summer. “I’m about to bring an elephant into the room. A wild, angry, and dangerous elephant,” joked Lilianne Ploumen, the Dutch trade minister, in August, before unveiling the chart to her audience. Now, its critics are trying to shoot it.stampede 英 [st?m?pi:d] 美 [st?m?pid] n. 惊逃; 人群的蜂拥; 军队溃败;vt. 使（动物）惊逃; 使（人群）涌向; vi. 逃窜; 涌向;broker 英 [?br??k?(r)] 美 [?bro?k?(r)] n.（股票、外币等）经纪人; 中间人，代理人; 旧货商人; 〈口〉婚姻介绍人; vt.作为权力经纪人进行谈判; 作为中间人来安排、设法;“大象曲线”始于2012年，隐身于布兰科·米拉诺维奇（Branko Milanovic）撰写的一份世界银行工作文件中，米拉诺维奇是研究全球不平等问题的权威。2014年它在《纽约时报》上引发了些许关注，之后又为米拉诺维奇今年年初一本颇受欢迎的关于全球不平等的新书增色不少。这期间的某个时候，它得到了这个名称，使其在社交媒体和股票经纪人的评论中频频出现，甚至今年春夏一位部长的讲话中也提到了它。“我要牵头大象进来了。一头狂野愤怒又危险的大象。” 八月在向听众展示这幅图之前，荷兰对外贸易大臣莉莲?普璐曼（Lilianne Ploumen）开玩笑地说道。现在，批评人士开始要射杀这头大象了。The distinctively shaped chart summarised the results of a huge number (196) of household surveys across the world. It was created by ranking the world’s population, from the poorest 10% to the richest 1%, in 1988 and again in 2008. At each rank, the chart showed the growth in income between these two years, an era of “high globalisation” from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the fall of Lehman Brothers.这幅形状特别的曲线图浓缩了全球范围内大量家庭调查的结果（共196项）。它将1988年和2008年的世界人口分别按照从最贫困的10%到最富裕的1%排列。在每个等级，这一图表都反映出这两个年份之间的收入增长。这是一段“高度全球化”的时期，从柏林墙的倒塌直到雷曼兄弟的破产。When drawn for individual countries, charts of this kind tend to?slant upwards?(the rich gain m