THEY SAY never to judge a book by its cover(以貌取人). But The Economist is defined by the face it shows the world. For most of the past 30 years that has been the charge of our designer, Graeme James, a dear friend and colleague who has died after a long fight against cancer.(在过去的近30年里，这一重任一直由我们的设计师格雷姆·詹姆斯承担，他是一位亲爱的朋友和同事，在与癌症长期抗争后去世了。)
俗话说不要以貌取人。但《经济学人》恰恰是由它展示给世界的面孔所定义的。在过去的近30年里，这一重任一直由我们的设计师格雷姆·詹姆斯承担。他是一位亲爱的朋友和同事，在与癌症长期抗争后去世了。
Graeme brought our words and arguments to life. Because we have four geographical editions, each of which may lead with a different story, he designed over 2,500 covers. That was an awful lot of(大量的，非常多的) free trade and globalisation for one pair of shoulders to bear(由一个人承担).
格雷姆将我们的文字和论点变得鲜活。由于我们有四个地理版本，每个版本可能以不同的报道作为头条，他设计了超过2500幅封面。对于一个人的肩膀来说，要承担如此多的自由贸易和全球化议题，实在是太多了。
He admired Rodin’s sculpture “The Thinker”(罗丹的雕塑《思想者》) and spent his days within reach of a soft-leaded pencil, filling sketchbooks with smudges and scribbles. As our weekly Wednesday-night deadline drew near, he would work with illustrators to refine ideas. He would also hammer out the details with frequently literal-minded editors—encounters that provoked Graeme to mutter the odd curse.(他还要与那些常常过于字面理解的编辑们敲定细节——这些交锋常引得格雷姆低声骂上几句。) If an article goes wrong, there is a substitute. Graeme had no safety-net(安全网，保障措施). He had to get it right every time.
他崇拜罗丹的雕塑《思想者》，每天手边都放着一支软铅铅笔，在速写本上涂涂画画。随着我们每周三晚截稿时间的临近，他会与插画师一起完善构思。他还要与那些常常过于字面理解的编辑们敲定细节——这些交锋常引得格雷姆低声骂上几句。如果一篇文章出了差错，还有替补文章可用。但格雷姆没有安全网。他每次都必须做到完美。
