Elon Musk C9 下 ：0921

Summary

#characteristic of Elon#

①ability to make enormous decisions very quickly

③classic thought

④hard-charging manner

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Words

Not only is he wrong, and let me rearticulate the reasons, but you're wrong, and let me articulate the reasons

1.(formal) to express or explain your thoughts or feelings clearly in words  清楚地表达

常和 highly, extremely, fairly 副词连用

✏️ articulate something (to somebody)

例句： She struggled to articulate her thoughts.

仿写：The thief should articulate the steal process to the police.

2. (formal) to be related to something so that together the two parts form a whole

✏️ articulate (with something) 连接

例句：These courses are designed to articulate with university degrees.

仿写：It's of necessity to articulate the theory with the practice to horn our skills.

3.able to talk easily and effectively about things, especially difficult subjects 表达能力强的

例句：Articulate speech is very important

仿写：It's an articulate essay.

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The e-mail went into gory detail about how Davis had designed the part

gory details

释义：(=full details about an unpleasant or interestingevent – often used humorously)

例句：She wanted to hear all the gory details about Tina's date with Nigel.

仿写：The witness should articulate gory details to prove his testimony .

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Musk might forecast how long a software project will take by timing the amount of seconds needed physically to write a line of code

Time 动词

to measure how long it takes for something to happen or for somebody to do something 计时 测定...时间

✏️  time something (at something)

例句：The winner was timed at 20.4 seconds.

✏️  time how long…

例句：Time how long it takes you to answer the questions.

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Musk has been pilloried by the press for setting and then missing product delivery dates

pillory： criticized by a lot of people,especially in newspapers etc:

✏️ pillory somebody/ sb be pilloried by...

例句：He was regularly pilloried by the press for his radical ideas.

仿写： The schoolmaster was pilloried by the Newspaper,owing to many gory details about his gossip were revealed.

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#量词#

a litany of excuses 一连串的借口
a batch of excuses 一堆借口
a handful of engineers 几个工程师
a bunch of software 一组软件

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a pinch of salt  一点盐
a grain of truth 一点真理
a jet of water 一眼泉水
a flight of birds 一群鸟
a pride of lions 一群雄狮

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Thought

the schedule should be X, and you execute towards that, but with the understanding that there will be all sorts of things that you don't know about that you will encounter that will push the date beyond that. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't  have tried to aim for that date from the beginning because aiming for something else would have been an arbitrary time increase.

准备做一件事时，常常因为一些不在自己预料之中的，自己不能掌握的，以及可能会发生阻碍事情顺利进行的各种因素而选择放弃，或选择等待更好的机会做好更充足的准备。而对于不可控的因素无论如何准备，该发生的都会发生，自己能做的就是面对问题，树立问题，解决问题。每件事情不是单因素或一维孤立的，在自己行动过程中对于各维度能力都会有积累提升，当真的遇到各种阻力时都不会如你当初所想的那般困难，因为此时的自己已不是驻足于起点的自己。与其站在起点观望深思熟虑，不如大步向前，尽力做好做好自己能做的，再不济真的困难重重失败了，至少自己少了一个“如果当初...就好了”的后悔可能。

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