Elon Musk-(8)Pain, Suffering, and Survival 1/2

日積月累:

1.wind up:dispute or bargain persistently, especially over the cost of something.

原文:He set off in March 2007 for SpaceX's headquarters in El Segundo and wound up receiving a personal tour from Musk.

造句:I set off in July 2016 for my preparation for graduate application and wound up receiving an offer in this month.

2.zip: to fasten something sing a zip

fiddle with: to move part of a machine in order to make it work, without knowing exactly what you should do

原文:Enthusiastic employees were zipping about, fiddling with an assortment of machines.

造句:I have tried to fiddle with this machine but failed.

3. dispel: make (a doubt, belief, or feeling) disappear

原文:an image hardly dispelled by a car collection that has boasted a Porsche 911 Turbo

造句:Nothing can dispel my belief.

復習:

1. The Musk glow dimmed.

2. He wouldn't flinch at?(退縮)renting a plane for ninety thousand dollars to get something to Kwaj.

3. It's not clear how much Musk let on to Justine about his dwindling bank account.

嘮叨兩句:

1.竟然在章節開頭就看到了wind up的用法,真心贊一下劍橋高級英語詞匯這本書!

2.前面講了Musk遇到的公司經濟危機,和形象的崩盤,后面主要講了婚姻史,個人對名人私生活不感冒,跳讀了很多,感觸最深的應該是公司困境時,硅谷花邊新聞社對Musk毫不留情的批判。縱使一方面是對投資者的好,但一方面很多媒體很多時候做的真的不太好,國內媒體更甚。

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