Elon Musk ：C9 上 170920

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词汇

This gives the impression of the Falcon 9 huffing and puffing as it limbers up before the journey

✏️ huff and puff.  (informal)
释义：①to breathe in a noisy way because you are very tired
例句：Jack was huffing and puffing to keep up with her.
释义：②to make it obvious that you are annoyed about something without doing anything to change the situation
例句：After much huffing and puffing, she finally agreed to help.
仿写：The heart failure patients are huffing and puffing to up to stairs.
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wheel and deal v. 独立行动；做负责人；讨价还价
doom and gloom 凄惨，前景不妙；
wear and tear n.损坏, 损耗
wine and dine 吃喝
fair and square adj.公正的

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This approach comes off as excessive at first blush.

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The 550,000-square-foot factory floor is difficult to process at first glance.

✏️ at first glance/ sight/blush when you first look at something: 乍一看

例句：At first glance, the place seemed deserted.

仿写：At first glance, this paper was perfect, except some spelling mistakes.

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These satellites can zoom in on Iowa and determine when cornfields are at peak yields and ready to harvest

✏️ zoom ˈin/​ˈout

(of a camera) to show the object that is being photographed from closer/​further away, with the use of a zoom lens

聚焦  (zoom lens变焦透镜）

例句：The camera zoomed in on the actorʼs face.

✏️ zoom + adv./​prep. (informal) to move or go somewhere very fast,疾驰而过

➔SYNONYM  ：​rush, whizz

例句：Traffic zoomed past us.

✏️ zoom (up) (to…)  (informal) (of prices, costs, etc.) to increase a lot quickly and suddenly 价格等突增

例句：House prices have zoomed up this year.

仿写：The company profit fromhas zoomed up to three times year-on-year.

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Its foibles emanate directly from him, as do its successes.

✏️ emanate from something

释义：to come from something or somewhere

➔SYNONYM  issue from

例句：The sound of loud music emanated from the building.

仿写：His confidence emanates from his parents' encouragements.

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篇章

公司如何招纳贤士；现在SpaceX公司的建筑构造，设计细节

#招纳贤士要求#

①exhibited type A personality traits over the course of their lives
②individuals who ooze passion, can work well as part of a team, and have real-world experience bending metal.
③a gauntlet of interviews and tests.
④a interview with Musk

突破重重关卡来到第四关，准备 Elon面试，难以想象会被问多么深奥或者奇葩的问题，气氛或有多么紧张，结果确是谜语，果然不走寻常路。而且还会和面试者一起各方向走动，相比之前的Elon觉得一丝有“可爱”。然而看似普通谜语，却从思考方式中觉察应试者的逻辑力和品性，注重如何分析问题。

You're standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?“Where else could you be?”

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He tends to care less about whether or not the person gets the answer than about how they describe the problem and their approach to solving it.

能分析出How？自己首先该明确what is the question 吧，序言Musk提到：

I came to the conclusion that really we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask.”

用心良苦的谜语。

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