凤凰涅槃 展翅翱翔
Summary
After Iron Man came out , Musk got more attention and enjoyed his rising profile , for it fed his ego and provided some fun . While puting on a good show for the public , he 'd started to get worried about his businesses —— launch attempt failure and Tesla delays . As his buinesses and public persona suffered , his home life degraded as well . Musk filed for divorce which turned to be a disaster scenario .During a decompression tour at London , Musk met with Riley and they got married soon .
Falcon 1 finally succeeded in its fourth launch ,making it the first privately built machine to accomplish such a feat. It took six year and five hundred people to make this miracle of modern scienceand business happen. However, the afterglow of this mammoth victory faded soon and space X fell in financial woes. Musk went through the hardest period until NASA paid 1.6 billion for flights to the space station.
Furthermore, Musk has a bigger goal than a few launches per year or several government contracts for survival. He committed himself to using manufacturing breakthroughs to create a drastic cost drop of getting things to space. And he made it , cases in point: the Falcon 1 was by far the cheapest means of getting something into orbit, thrilling people in the space industry;and Falcon Heavy was designed to be the world’s most powerful rocket.
Despite his success in space industry, Musk concerned about SpaceX going public.He preferred creating great products than being distracted by the manic-depressive nature of the stock.
学习体会
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字词整理
一、“争吵、引发矛盾”主题
斥：lay into sb / berate sb / chide sb / confrontations
矛盾：political rifts / to ignite a major rift / rub against / rub sb / face off against sb / be at odds / on the rocks /
事后：smooth over the situation
二、“财务恶化”情形
▲钱花完：vacuum up / chew through/ run out of
—Both endeavors were vacuuming up Musk's money .
—Musk had chewed through more than half the money .
—Musk had run out of money .
▲危机、陷入困境：financial hell / financial woes / struggle to make its payroll / tumble into / bog down
—Musk tumbled into a deep funk.
—The converstion with the interns bogged down. (=no progess is made )
▲勉强度过 to scrape through to the end of the year / to get through 2008 and stay alive/ pony up (不情愿出钱) / cobble together (拼凑钱)
三、 “显现某种品质” ： emanate / ooze
—Its foibles emanate directly from him , as do its successes .
—The object is to find individuals who ooze passion ,can work well as part of a team .
四、成功 nail / pull off
—SpaceX could nail the fourth flight.
—to pull off a tough project .
六、pony 出现两次
pony up = unwillingly pay the money
one-trick pony = be limited to only one single talent, capability, quality,只有一技之长
七、问（质问、追问） trap sb / hound sb / grill sb / pepper sb with questions