為什麼伊隆·馬斯克不喜歡休假：英語精讀講義

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

這個忙於解決世界難題的男人理應擁有一個假期。

Yes.

是的。

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

然而伊隆·馬斯克在他整個成年生活中好好休息的次數

can pretty much be counted on one hand. 慣用語

幾乎用一隻手就能數得過來。

And when he has tried to go on vacation,

而且每當他試圖去度假時，

it hasn't always worked out. 片語動詞

結果總是不盡如人意。

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

當他和第一任妻子賈斯汀去度蜜月，順便觀看2000年奧運時，

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

他們一降落在雪梨機場，他就收到了壞消息。

The board of x.com,

x.com的董事會，

the precursor to PayPal, 用詞

也就是PayPal的前身，

had decided to fire him as CEO,

決定解僱他的CEO職務，

replacing him with Peter Thiel.

用彼得·提爾取代他。

So much for the honeymoon. 語氣意圖

蜜月就此泡湯了。

He flew back to Palo Alto, California

他飛回了加利福尼亞州的帕羅奧圖

to fight to get his job back,

去努力奪回他的工作，

to no avail. 片語搭配

卻徒勞無功。

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

三個月後，他再次嘗試去度蜜月。

This time,

這一次，

he nearly lost his life.

他險些喪命。

While at a game reserve in his native South Africa,

在他的故鄉南非的一個野生動物保護區時，

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

馬斯克感染了最致命的一種瘧疾，而他自己甚至毫無察覺。

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

當他回到美國並病倒時，

doctors misdiagnosed him and he nearly died.

醫生誤診了他，他差點死去。

By sheer luck,

純粹出於運氣，

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

一位恰好有瘧疾病例經驗的來訪醫生

saw his blood work, 用詞

看了他的驗血報告，

suspected he had malaria,

懷疑他得了瘧疾，

and immediately ordered antibiotics.

並立即開出了抗生素。

Musk got the treatment just in time. 片語搭配

馬斯克得到了及時的治療。

As Ashlee Vance details in his book about the entrepreneur,

正如艾胥黎·范斯在關於這位企業家的書中所詳述的那樣，

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

醫生告訴馬斯克，如果他晚一天才來看病，

the medicine likely would no longer have been effective.

這藥很可能就不再有效了。

Musk later told Vance,

馬斯克後來告訴范斯，

"That's my lesson for taking a vacation.

"這就是我度假得到的教訓。

Vacations will kill you."

度假會害死你的。"

He spent 10 days in the intensive care unit 用詞

他在加護病房待了10天，

and took six months to recover, 文法

花了六個月時間才康復，

losing 45 pounds.

瘦了45磅。

And the curse continued.

而這個詛咒還在繼續。

When he took a week off in October 2014,

當他在2014年10月休了一週假時，

an unmanned Orbital Sciences Corporation rocket exploded seconds after liftoff.

軌道科學公司的一枚無人火箭在升空幾秒後爆炸了。

It was supposed to carry food, 文法

它本應該運送食物、

water, and supplies

水和補給

to the International Space Station.

到國際太空站。

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. 慣用語

但這也許是未來事情發生的一個預兆。

And sure enough, 表達脈絡

果不其然，

the next time he tried to take vacation,

他下一次試圖休假時，

his SpaceX rocket exploded.

他的SpaceX火箭爆炸了。

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

這裡的教訓就是不要休假一週。

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

而馬斯克也幾乎履行了這個承諾，很少有例外。

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

他聲稱自己沒有時間放慢腳步，

not even on his birthday. 文法

甚至在他的生日那天也是如此。

When he turned 47,

當他滿47歲時，

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

他正在特斯拉工廠努力工作。

In fact,

事實上，

he stayed there all night.

他在那裡熬了一整夜。

In a previous video,

在之前的影片裡，

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

我談到過他素來有在工作中睡覺的習慣。

That year in particular,

那一年尤為如此，

2018,

也就是2018年，

was excruciatingly painful.

是極其痛苦的。

He put in 120-hour work weeks 片語動詞

他每週工作120小時，

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

當時這家電動車製造商正艱難地量產其迄今為止最實惠的車型，

the Model 3.

Model 3。

Taking time off as his employees sweated on the factory floor

當他的員工在工廠車間汗流浹背時休假

was out of the question. 慣用語

是絕對不可能的。

Explaining to CBS,

他向CBS解釋說，

"I don't believe people should be experiencing hardship

"我不認為人們應該在經歷苦難時

while the CEO is like off on vacation."

而CEO卻像是在度假一樣。"

Tesla got over that painful period, 片語動詞

特斯拉熬過了那段痛苦的時期，

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

但隨著馬斯克同時打理多家公司，他並沒有放慢腳步。

He recently revealed that his brain-machine interface startup Neuralink

他最近透露，他的腦機介面新創公司Neuralink

implanted a chip inside a monkey's brain

在一隻猴子的大腦裡植入了一塊晶片，

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

他說這使得猴子能用大腦控制電子遊戲。

The Boring Company opened new offices in Texas

The Boring Company在德州開設了新辦公室，

as its tunnel projects expand.

隨著其隧道項目的擴大。

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

伊隆·馬斯克生活中的一天包含一個接一個的會議，

and not casual ones,

而且都不是隨意的會議，

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

正如他最近在新的社群媒體應用程式Clubhouse上解釋的那樣。

My days are like insane torrents of information. 慣用語

我的每一天都像是瘋狂的資訊洪流。

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

安排的會議不像是那種可有可無的會議。

They're like this meeting is essential.

而是那種『這個會議必不可少』的。

It's pretty intense.

強度非常大。

When someone on the question-and-answer website Quora

當有人在問答網站Quora上

asked how they could be like Elon Musk,

問他們如何才能像伊隆·馬斯克一樣時，

an unlikely person responded,

一個意想不到的人回答了，

his ex-wife, Justine,

他的前妻賈斯汀，

who was married to him for eight years

她曾與他結婚八年，

and had a front-row seat inside the life and mind 慣用語

在第一排見證了世界上最成功人士之一的

of one of the most successful people in the world.

生活與思想。

She wrote,

她寫道，

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

"極度的成功是以犧牲許多其他東西為代價的。

Happiness is more or less beside the point. 慣用語

幸福多多少少也是無關緊要的。

And the essential ingredient for extreme success 慣用語

而極度成功的關鍵要素

is to be obsessed, 表達脈絡

是要癡迷，

be obsessed,

癡迷，

be obsessed."

再癡迷。"

In this case,

在這個例子中，

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

無非是促使世界向永續能源過渡，

and building civilizations in space.

並在太空建立文明。

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

如果我們能夠提高創新的速度，

then life can become multi-planetary.

那麼生命就可以成為多行星的。

This is the goal we should strive for.

這是我們應該努力實現的目標。

While Musk is reluctant to take time off,

雖然馬斯克不願意休假，

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

但許多其他成功人士卻非常注重去度假。

Richard Branson,

理查·布蘭森，

the billionaire founder of Virgin Group,

維珍集團的億萬富翁創辦人，

has been known to relax on his private Caribbean island.

以在他私人的加勒比海島嶼上放鬆而聞名。

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

Netflix的CEO里德·海斯汀非常推崇每年休息六週，

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

說他經常在某個山區徒步旅行時想出他最好的點子。

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

很難想像馬斯克能休哪怕一週假的場景，

let alone six. 片語搭配

更不用說六週了。

Though at the rate he's going, 慣用語

雖然以他現在的速度，

he admits it might be high time for some me time. 慣用語

他承認可能真的該給自己留點時間了。

I was thinking like,

我當時在想，

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

"天哪，我還能堅持多久？

I don't want my brain to explode."

我不想我的大腦爆炸。"

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

我當時想，也許我應該在某個時候休假一週什麼的。

Clear my mind. 片語搭配

清空一下我的大腦。

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

那將不會包括在海灘上閒逛，

however,

然而，

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

他曾說過這會讓他無聊透頂。

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

更可能是在飛行中的飛機外行走，

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

他2015年在英國和他的第二任妻子妲露拉·萊莉就這麼做過。

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

如果他哪天真的決定再次度個真正的假期，

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

可能就是在某艘星艦上，踏上一段離開這個世界的旅程。

That would be an extended vacation

那將是一個漫長的假期，

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

因為去火星的單程旅行需要大約六個月。

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

馬斯克最近說他非常有信心人們能夠訪問這顆紅色星球，

as early as 2026, 片語搭配

最早可能在2026年，

though his timelines do tend to change. 文法

儘管他的時間表確實經常會變。

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

如果你想了解更多關於太空和其他行星的資訊，

my sponsor CuriosityStream has a fascinating original series.

我的贊助商CuriosityStream有一部引人入勝的原創劇集。

Hello, Stephen Hawking here.

大家好，我是史蒂芬·霍金。

The renowned late physicist pilots a computer-generated spaceship to his favorite places in the universe.

這位已故的著名物理學家駕駛著一艘電腦生成的宇宙飛船前往他在宇宙中最喜歡的地方。

CuriosityStream offers thousands of documentaries about science,

CuriosityStream提供了數千部關於科學、

tech, and nature.

科技和自然的紀錄片。

It's just $14 dollars for the entire year

全年只需14美元，

if you head to the link in my description.

只要點擊我描述中的連結即可。

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

別忘了使用我的優惠碼NewsThink來獲取這項優惠。

Hey guys,

大家好，

I'm Cindy Pom.

我是Cindy Pom。

Thank you so much for your support.

非常感謝你們的支持。

And check out what just came in the mail,

看看我剛剛在郵件裡收到了什麼，

my YouTube award for surpassing 100,000 subscribers.

我因為訂閱人數突破10萬而獲得的YouTube獎牌。

I could not have done this without you.

沒有你們我無法做到這一切。

I look forward to this journey ahead

我期待著前方的旅程，

and I hope you join me for this ride.

並希望你能和我一起踏上這段旅程。

I'll see you soon.

我們很快再見。