2020.05.21 book review书评 Vicky
书名:Elon Musk- How the billionaire CEO of space X and Tesla is shaping our future ---Ashlee Vance(作者)
阅读时间:5.11-21,断断续续10天读完,亚马逊电子书
原文摘录
SpaceX had a factory in Los Angeles , a rocket test facility in central Texas , and had just started construction on a spaceport in South Texas . ( SpaceX does a lot of business at existing launch sites in California and Florida , as well . ) Tesla had its car factory in Silicon Valley , the design center in Los Angeles , and had started construction on a battery
factory in Nevada . ( Politicians from Nevada , Texas , California , New Mexico , and Arizona threw themlves at Musk over the battery factory , with Nevada ultimately winning the business by offering Tesla $ 1.4 billion in incentives .SolarCity has created thousands of white- and blue-collar clean-tech jobs, and it will create manufacturing jobs at the solar pan
el factory that’s being built in Buffalo, New York. All together, Musk Co. employed about fifteen thousand people at the end of 2014.
Space X在洛杉矶有个工厂,在德州中部有个火箭测试设备,并刚刚在德州南部开始建设一个太空港。(Space X还在加州和弗洛里达州现有的发射场地有很多业务往来)特斯拉的汽车厂在硅谷,设计中心在洛杉矶,在内华达州正在建设一个电池生产厂(内华达、德州、加州
新墨西哥州和亚利桑那州的政府官员纷纷拉拢马斯克将厂址设在他们州里,最终内华达州成功将其招引过来,给特斯拉14亿美元作为激励)太阳城公司创造了成千个白领和蓝领清洁能源相关的岗位,它还将在纽约州布法罗市建设太阳能板工厂,届时会创造关于制造业相关的工作岗位。总之截止到2014年,马斯克的公司共雇用了15000名员工。
Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share baby photos , Musk wants to … well … save the human race from lf - impod or accidental annihilation.
扎克伯克创办脸书是想让你和别人分享自己宝宝的照片。马斯克是想保护人们的隐私,或者避免偶然导致的人类灭绝。
he viewed the Internet , renewable energy , and space as the three areas that would undergo significant change in the years to come and as the markets where he could make a big impact .
他认为网络、再生能源和太空是未来变化系数最大的三大领域,并且把这三大领域看作是他将大展身手的市场。
国语歌曲“ SpaceX is in this for the long haul and , come hell or high water , we are going to make this work . ”
Space X 公司将会长期作战,赴汤蹈火,不管经历什么,我们一定能够实现我们的终极目标。
坎坷近义词Eberhard had come up with the name Tesla Motors , both to pay homage to the inventor and electric motor pioneer Nikola Tesla and becau it sounded cool.感谢家长的话
散文形式艾伯哈德给公司命名为特斯拉汽车,一是为了向电车创始人和县区尼古拉特斯拉致敬,还有是因为他听起来很酷。
模范出租车漫画In the years that followed, the goal went from taking huge risks to create new industries and grand new ideas , to chasing easier money by entertaining consumers and pumping out simple apps and advertiments .
当今时代,人们的目标从顶着风险创造新的产业和新奇的思想已经转变成为通过娱乐消费者和推出一些简单的应用程序和广告来赚快钱。
Throughout the early years , the engineers credited Eberhard with making quick , crisp decisions . Rarely did Tesla get hung up overanalyzing a situation . The company would pick a plan of attack , and when it failed at something , it failed fast and then tried a new approach .
公司发展的前几年,工程师们都为艾伯哈德(特斯拉最早的创始人之一)下决定快速、干脆点赞。特斯拉几乎没有花长时间过度分析。公司会选择好一条主攻计划,如果失败了,会很快失败,然后立即尝试新途径。
“ When Elon gets into something , he develops just this different level of interest in it than other people . That is what differentiates Elon from the rest of humanity . ”
当埃隆研究某样东西,他会比其他人都会感兴趣。这是埃隆异于常人之处。
One thing that Musk holds in the highest regard is resolve , and he respects people who continue on after being told no .
马斯克很看中的一点是决心,他很尊重那些敢于在被别人拒绝之后依然坚持的人。
Valley denizens took very literally the cliché of working as hard as you play . People in their twenties , thirties , forties , and fifties were expected to pull all - nighters . Cubicles were turned into temporary homes , and personal hygiene was abandoned .
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(硅)谷民们贯穿的就是干得尽力,玩得尽兴的传统。二十岁、三十岁、四十岁甚至是五十岁的人通宵达旦都是常态。小小的工作间成了临时的居家,个人卫生毫无顾忌。
“ I had a tough childhood , so maybe that was helpful . ”
我的童年非常艰难,可能这也帮了我。
红楼梦的读书心得He points out that one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask , “ O
nce you figure out the question , then the answer is relatively easy .”
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