Chanpter 8?PAIN, SUFFERING, AND SURVIVAL?

WORDS

1.relish/?rel??/?

Justine appeared to relish their status even more than Musk.

釋義：to enjoy an experience or the thought of something that is going to happen
?搭配：relish the prospect/thought/idea/ chance/opportunity

adv搭配 [搭配]VERB + RELISH

positively, really，clearly, obviously，appear to, seem to
not particularly 不太期待:
?secretly 暗中喜歡:

同義：= enjoy, delight in, fancy, like, revel in, savour
.

例：He did not particularly relish the prospect of a meeting with his boss.
他可不太想見他的上司。
rather
造句：She secretly relished the thought of being alone with him.

2.heap

Reporters who months earlier had been heaping adulation on Musk turned on him.

釋義：heap praise/insults/critism etc on somebody to praise, insult etc someone a lot:

heap做名詞就是一堆，比如經(jīng)驗豐富的人可以說 a man heaps of experience

做動詞就是堆疊的意思，可以理解為將獎勵堆疊到某人身上，就是大力夸獎或者批評的意思，文中是指平命拍馬屁

注意和leap區(qū)分，第一眼以為是leap

例：He heaped all the blame on his secretary.

造句： The teachers always heap on praise on the students who gets high score in the school

3.adulation [??dj??le??(?)n]

釋義：praise and admiration for someone that is more than they really deserve。

例：Minelli is a born performer - she loves the excitement and she loves the adulation
造句：PG One enjoy the adulation of their fans wherever he go.
放圖

4.turn on sb
釋義：to attack sb suddenly and unexpectedly
例： Why are you all turning on me (= criticizing or blaming me)?
造句： The lions suddenly turned on each other.

5.champion

Thomas then championed the premise that Musk was a? master manipulator who played fast and loose with other people's money.

釋義：to support, defend or fight for a person, belief, right or principle enthusiastically 支持，聲援，捍衛(wèi)（人、信仰、權(quán)利或原則），為…斗爭
例：He has championed constitutional reform for many years.他支持憲法改革好多年了。

Thoughts

Musk富有起來之后，過著花花公子般的生活，真的很難想象這種技術(shù)宅男也會喜歡紙醉金迷。不過之后他遇到了事業(yè)和家庭的雙重打擊，公司的項目接連出現(xiàn)問題，遲遲不能成功。家庭方面也和Justine離婚了。不過上找到了一顆嫩草.....但是現(xiàn)在也已經(jīng)離婚了。

這一章里面的Musk和前幾章有一些不一樣的形象，這才是真實的人類吧。期待明天他是怎么survive的。