Elon Musk Chapter 8(1)

Part 1 一些字词

✏️relish

原文：Justine appeared to relish their status even more than Musk.

朗文释义：to enjoy an experience or the thought of something that is going to happen 喜爱；享受

relish the prospect/thought/idea

例句：I don’t relish the thought of you walking home alone.  我可不想让你一个人走回家。

relish the chance/opportunity

He relishes the chance to play Hamlet.  他很高兴能有机会扮演哈姆雷特。

造句：I relish the opportunity to read the book online with more than 2000 people.

✏️heap...on sb  & turn on sb

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

· 朗文释义：heap praise/insults etc on sb 

  to praise, insult etc someone a lot 对某人极力称赞/百般侮辱等

  例句：He heaped all the blame on his secretary.  他把所有责任都推在秘书身上。

  造句: He never heaps praise on his children.

· 朗文释义：turn on sb ( also 又作 turn upon sb )

  to suddenly attack someone, using physical violence or unpleasant words 〔用暴力或恶毒语言〕突然攻   击某人

 例句：Peter turned on Rae and screamed, ‘Get out of my sight!’  彼得突然冲着雷尖叫起来:“从我面前滚    开！”

 造句：Turning on him with cruel words made her feel guilty afterwards.

✏️coax  &  goad 

·原文：Lee coaxed Musk into going to a club called Whisky Mist, in Mayfair.

 朗文释义：to persuade someone to do something that they do not want to do by talking to them in a  kind, gentle, and patient way 劝诱，哄；诱导

 例句：‘Please, Vic, come with us,’ Nancy coaxed.  “求你了，维克，跟我们一起去吧。”南希哄劝道。

 用法：coax sb into/out of (doing) sth

 例句：We had to coax Alan into going to school.  我们只好哄着艾伦去上学。

 造句： My parents used to coaxed me into taking the medicine.

·原文：Lee set to work trying to goad Musk into a night on the town.

 朗文释义：to make someone do something by annoying or encouraging them until they do it 驱使，唆使

 → provoke

 用法：goad sb into (doing) sth

 例句：Kathy goaded him into telling her what he had done.  凯茜逼着他把自己所干的事告诉了她。

 造句： Somebody who is goaded into studying can never study well.

对比可以发现，两个词虽然都是Lee 劝 Musk 去俱乐部，夜总会，但是具体的劝法是不一样的，coax用“哄着去”的意味，“goad”有“拉着去”的感觉。

Part 2 一些感悟

个人感觉今天读的大部分与Elon Musk 的八卦有关。最主要的感想就是名人最好还是只在自己的领域出名就好，不要过多的暴露私人生活在公众面前。人们都是八卦的，也都是贪得无厌的，硅谷的人们也不例外。所以我个人觉得Elon的妻子写博客也是利用了人们想要窥探别人的生活，看到了还要看到更多的心理，有一部分的虚荣原因，之后也有一部分报复的原因，每天这样写着，让 Elon 那段时间也不好过。。

所以我把QQ空间关了，朋友圈也不爱发，就总觉得不知道别人会在什么时候窥探你以前和现在的生活，而且发动态就会关心别人有没有点赞，有没有评论之类的事情，很耽误时间。我认为这不是在记录生活，而是想让别人看到你的生活。