Summary
#characteristic of Elon#
①ability to make enormous decisions very quickly
③classic thought
④hard-charging manner
Words
Not only is he wrong, and let me rearticulate the reasons, but you're wrong, and let me articulate the reasons
仿寫:It's of necessity to articulate the theory with the practice to horn our skills.
3.able to talk easily and effectively about things, especially difficult subjects 表達(dá)能力強(qiáng)的
例句:Articulate speech is very important
仿寫:It's an articulate essay.
The e-mail went into gory detail about how Davis had designed the part
gory details
釋義:(=full details about an unpleasant or interestingevent – often used humorously)
例句:She wanted to hear all the gory details about Tina's date with Nigel.
仿寫:The witness should articulate gory details to prove his testimony .
Musk might forecast how long a software project will take by timing the amount of seconds needed physically to write a line of code
Time 動(dòng)詞
to measure how long it takes for something to happen or for somebody to do something 計(jì)時(shí) 測(cè)定...時(shí)間
?? ?time something (at something)
例句:The winner was timed at 20.4 seconds.
?? ?time how long…
例句:Time how long it takes you to answer the questions.
Musk has been pilloried by the press for setting and then missing product delivery dates
pillory: criticized by a lot of people,especially in newspapers etc:
?? pillory somebody/ sb be pilloried by...
例句:He was regularly pilloried by the press for his radical ideas.
仿寫: The schoolmaster was pilloried by the Newspaper,owing to many gory details about his gossip were revealed.
#量詞#
a litany of excuses 一連串的借口
a batch of excuses 一堆借口
a handful of engineers 幾個(gè)工程師
a bunch of software 一組軟件
a pinch of salt? 一點(diǎn)鹽
a grain of truth 一點(diǎn)真理
a jet of water 一眼泉水
a flight of birds 一群鳥
a pride of lions 一群雄獅
Thought
the schedule should be X, and you execute towards that, but with the understanding that there will be all sorts of things that you don't know about that you will encounter that will push the date beyond that. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't? have tried to aim for that date from the beginning because aiming for something else would have been an arbitrary time increase.
準(zhǔn)備做一件事時(shí),常常因?yàn)橐恍┎辉谧约侯A(yù)料之中的,自己不能掌握的映凳,以及可能會(huì)發(fā)生阻礙事情順利進(jìn)行的各種因素而選擇放棄芜赌,或選擇等待更好的機(jī)會(huì)做好更充足的準(zhǔn)備轿秧。而對(duì)于不可控的因素?zé)o論如何準(zhǔn)備哼鬓,該發(fā)生的都會(huì)發(fā)生送浊,自己能做的就是面對(duì)問(wèn)題,樹立問(wèn)題督怜,解決問(wèn)題殴瘦。每件事情不是單因素或一維孤立的,在自己行動(dòng)過(guò)程中對(duì)于各維度能力都會(huì)有積累提升号杠,當(dāng)真的遇到各種阻力時(shí)都不會(huì)如你當(dāng)初所想的那般困難蚪腋,因?yàn)榇藭r(shí)的自己已不是駐足于起點(diǎn)的自己。與其站在起點(diǎn)觀望深思熟慮姨蟋,不如大步向前屉凯,盡力做好做好自己能做的,再不濟(jì)真的困難重重失敗了眼溶,至少自己少了一個(gè)“如果當(dāng)初...就好了”的后悔可能悠砚。