为什么埃隆·马斯克不喜欢休假：英语精读讲义

The man who's too busy trying to solve the world's problems likely deserves a vacation.

这个忙于解决世界难题的男人理应拥有一个假期。

Yes.

是的。

Yet the number of times Elon Musk has kicked up his feet during his entire adult life 習語

然而伊隆·马斯克在他整个成年生活中好好休息的次数

can pretty much be counted on one hand. 習語

几乎用一只手就能数得过来。

And when he has tried to go on vacation,

而且每当他试图去度假时，

it hasn't always worked out. 短語動詞

结果总是不尽如人意。

While on his honeymoon with his first wife Justine to catch the 2000 Olympics,

当他和第一任妻子贾斯汀去度蜜月，顺便观看2000年奥运会时，

he got some bad news as soon as they landed at Sydney Airport. 語法

他们一降落在悉尼机场，他就收到了坏消息。

The board of x.com,

x.com的董事会，

the precursor to PayPal, 用詞

也就是PayPal的前身，

had decided to fire him as CEO,

决定解雇他的CEO职务，

replacing him with Peter Thiel.

用彼得·蒂尔取代他。

So much for the honeymoon. 語氣意圖

蜜月就此泡汤了。

He flew back to Palo Alto, California

他飞回了加利福尼亚州的帕洛阿尔托

to fight to get his job back,

去努力夺回他的工作，

to no avail. 短語搭配

却徒劳无功。

He tried to go on his honeymoon again three months later.

三个月后，他再次尝试去度蜜月。

This time,

这一次，

he nearly lost his life.

他险些丧命。

While at a game reserve in his native South Africa,

在他的故乡南非的一个野生动物保护区时，

Musk contracted the deadliest form of malaria and didn't even know it. 用詞

马斯克感染了最致命的一种疟疾，而他自己甚至毫无察觉。

When he returned to the US and fell ill, 短語搭配

当他回到美国并病倒时，

doctors misdiagnosed him and he nearly died.

医生误诊了他，他差点死去。

By sheer luck,

纯粹出于运气，

a visiting doctor who happened to have experience with malaria cases 語法

一位恰好有疟疾病例经验的来访医生

saw his blood work, 用詞

看了他的验血报告，

suspected he had malaria,

怀疑他得了疟疾，

and immediately ordered antibiotics.

并立即开出了抗生素。

Musk got the treatment just in time. 短語搭配

马斯克得到了及时的治疗。

As Ashlee Vance details in his book about the entrepreneur,

正如阿什利·万斯在关于这位企业家的书中所详述的那样，

the doctor told Musk that if he had turned up a day later, 語法

医生告诉马斯克，如果他晚一天才来看病，

the medicine likely would no longer have been effective.

这药很可能就不再有效了。

Musk later told Vance,

马斯克后来告诉万斯，

"That's my lesson for taking a vacation.

"这就是我度假得到的教训。

Vacations will kill you."

度假会害死你的。"

He spent 10 days in the intensive care unit 用詞

他在重症监护室待了10天，

and took six months to recover, 語法

花了六个月时间才康复，

losing 45 pounds.

瘦了45磅。

And the curse continued.

而这个诅咒还在继续。

When he took a week off in October 2014,

当他在2014年10月休了一周假时，

an unmanned Orbital Sciences Corporation rocket exploded seconds after liftoff.

轨道科学公司的一枚无人火箭在升空几秒后爆炸了。

It was supposed to carry food, 語法

它本应该运送食物、

water, and supplies

水和补给

to the International Space Station.

到国际空间站。

It wasn't his own rocket,

那不是他自己的火箭，

but it was perhaps a sign of things to come. 習語

但这也许是未来事情发生的一个预兆。

And sure enough, 表達脈絡

果不其然，

the next time he tried to take vacation,

他下一次试图休假时，

his SpaceX rocket exploded.

他的SpaceX火箭爆炸了。

The lesson here is don't take a week off.

这里的教训就是不要休假一周。

And Musk has pretty much lived up to that promise with few exceptions. 講解

而马斯克也几乎履行了这个承诺，很少有例外。

He claims he doesn't have time to slow down,

他声称自己没有时间放慢脚步，

not even on his birthday. 語法

甚至在他的生日那天也是如此。

When he turned 47,

当他满47岁时，

he was hard at work at Tesla's factory. 短語搭配

他正在特斯拉工厂努力工作。

In fact,

事实上，

he stayed there all night.

他在那里熬了一整夜。

In a previous video,

在之前的视频里，

I talked about how he's been known to sleep at work. 語法

我谈到过他素来有在工作中睡觉的习惯。

That year in particular,

那一年尤为如此，

2018,

也就是2018年，

was excruciatingly painful.

是极其痛苦的。

He put in 120-hour work weeks 短語動詞

他每周工作120小时，

as the electric automaker struggled to mass produce its most affordable vehicle yet, 用詞

当时这家电动汽车制造商正艰难地量产其迄今为止最实惠的车型，

the Model 3.

Model 3。

Taking time off as his employees sweated on the factory floor

当他的员工在工厂车间汗流浃背时休假

was out of the question. 習語

是绝对不可能的。

Explaining to CBS,

他向CBS解释说，

"I don't believe people should be experiencing hardship

"我不认为人们应该在经历苦难时

while the CEO is like off on vacation."

而CEO却像是在度假一样。"

Tesla got over that painful period, 短語動詞

特斯拉熬过了那段痛苦的时期，

but Musk isn't slowing down as he juggles several companies. 習語

但随着马斯克同时打理多家公司，他并没有放慢脚步。

He recently revealed that his brain-machine interface startup Neuralink

他最近透露，他的脑机接口初创公司Neuralink

implanted a chip inside a monkey's brain

在一只猴子的大脑里植入了一块芯片，

that he says allowed it to control a video game with its mind.

他说这使得猴子能用大脑控制电子游戏。

The Boring Company opened new offices in Texas

The Boring Company在德克萨斯州开设了新办公室，

as its tunnel projects expand.

随着其隧道项目的扩大。

A day in the life of Elon Musk involves back to back to back meetings, 短語搭配

伊隆·马斯克生活中的一天包含一个接一个的会议，

and not casual ones,

而且都不是随意的会议，

as he recently explained on the new social media app Clubhouse.

正如他最近在新的社交媒体应用Clubhouse上解释的那样。

My days are like insane torrents of information. 習語

我的每一天都像是疯狂的信息洪流。

The meetings that are scheduled are not like nice to have meetings. 用詞

安排的会议不像是那种可有可无的会议。

They're like this meeting is essential.

而是那种‘这个会议必不可少’的。

It's pretty intense.

强度非常大。

When someone on the question-and-answer website Quora

当有人在问答网站Quora上

asked how they could be like Elon Musk,

问他们如何才能像伊隆·马斯克一样时，

an unlikely person responded,

一个意想不到的人回答了，

his ex-wife, Justine,

他的前妻贾斯汀，

who was married to him for eight years

她曾与他结婚八年，

and had a front-row seat inside the life and mind 習語

在第一排见证了世界上最成功人士之一的

of one of the most successful people in the world.

生活与思想。

She wrote,

她写道，

"Extreme success comes at the cost of many other things. 短語搭配

"极度的成功是以牺牲许多其他东西为代价的。

Happiness is more or less beside the point. 習語

幸福多多少少也是无关紧要的。

And the essential ingredient for extreme success 習語

而极度成功的关键要素

is to be obsessed, 表達脈絡

是要痴迷，

be obsessed,

痴迷，

be obsessed."

再痴迷。"

In this case,

在这个例子中，

nothing less than transitioning the world to sustainable energy 短語搭配

无非是促使世界向可持续能源过渡，

and building civilizations in space.

并在太空建立文明。

If we are able to increase the rate of innovation, 語法

如果我们能够提高创新的速度，

then life can become multi-planetary.

那么生命就可以成为多行星的。

This is the goal we should strive for.

这是我们应该努力实现的目标。

While Musk is reluctant to take time off,

虽然马斯克不愿意休假，

many other successful people make it a point to get away. 講解

但许多其他成功人士却非常注重去度假。

Richard Branson,

理查德·布兰森，

the billionaire founder of Virgin Group,

维珍集团的亿万富翁创始人，

has been known to relax on his private Caribbean island.

以在他私人的加勒比海岛屿上放松而闻名。

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings swears by six weeks off every year, 習語

Netflix的CEO里德·哈斯廷斯非常推崇每年休息六周，

saying he often does his best thinking when he's hiking in a mountain somewhere.

说他经常在某个山区徒步旅行时想出他最好的点子。

It's hard to imagine a scenario where Musk takes even one week off,

很难想象马斯克能休哪怕一周假的场景，

let alone six. 短語搭配

更不用说六周了。

Though at the rate he's going, 習語

虽然以他现在的速度，

he admits it might be high time for some me time. 習語

他承认可能真的该给自己留点时间了。

I was thinking like,

我当时在想，

"Man, how long can I keep this up? 短語動詞

"天哪，我还能坚持多久？

I don't want my brain to explode."

我不想我的大脑爆炸。"

I was thinking like maybe I should like at some point like take a week off or something. 語氣意圖

我当时想，也许我应该在某个时候休假一周什么的。

Clear my mind. 短語搭配

清空一下我的大脑。

That won't involve lounging around at the beach, 短語動詞

那将不会包括在海滩上闲逛，

however,

然而，

which he once said will leave him super duper bored. 用詞

他曾说过这会让他无聊透顶。

More like walking outside of a flying plane, 語氣意圖

更可能是在飞行中的飞机外行走，

which he did in England in 2015 with his second wife Talulah Riley.

他2015年在英国和他的第二任妻子塔卢拉·莱利就这么干过。

If and when he does decide to finally take a real vacation again, 短語搭配

如果他哪天真的决定再次度个真正的假期，

it might just be aboard a certain starship on a journey out of this world. 習語

可能就是在某艘星舰上，踏上一段离开这个世界的旅程。

That would be an extended vacation

那将是一个漫长的假期，

because the trip to Mars would take about six months each way. 短語搭配

因为去火星的单程旅行需要大约六个月。

Musk recently said he's highly confident people can visit the red planet 文化背景

马斯克最近说他非常有信心人们能够访问这颗红色星球，

as early as 2026, 短語搭配

最早可能在2026年，

though his timelines do tend to change. 語法

尽管他的时间表确实经常会变。

If you'd like to learn more about space and other planets,

如果你想了解更多关于太空和其他行星的信息，

my sponsor CuriosityStream has a fascinating original series.

我的赞助商CuriosityStream有一部引人入胜的原创剧集。

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大家好，我是斯蒂芬·霍金。

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这位已故的著名物理学家驾驶着一艘计算机生成的宇宙飞船前往他在宇宙中最喜欢的地方。

CuriosityStream offers thousands of documentaries about science,

CuriosityStream提供了数千部关于科学、

tech, and nature.

科技和自然的纪录片。

It's just $14 dollars for the entire year

全年只需14美元，

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只要点击我描述中的链接即可。

Don't forget to use my promo code NewsThink to get the deal.

别忘了使用我的优惠码NewsThink来获取这项优惠。

Hey guys,

大家好，

I'm Cindy Pom.

我是Cindy Pom。

Thank you so much for your support.

非常感谢你们的支持。

And check out what just came in the mail,

看看我刚刚在邮件里收到了什么，

my YouTube award for surpassing 100,000 subscribers.

我因为订阅人数突破10万而获得的YouTube奖牌。

I could not have done this without you.

没有你们我无法做到这一切。

I look forward to this journey ahead

我期待着前方的旅程，

and I hope you join me for this ride.

并希望你能和我一起踏上这段旅程。

I'll see you soon.

我们很快再见。