2017.9.16 ?(Chapter 6-7)
Part 1.Summary
About SpaceX :
After coups and long-time illness ,Musk decided to LA with Justine. There is the place for space , where he would restart his interest ?and be surrounded by the world's top aeronautic thinkers. He indeed desired to do something more meaningful and lasting.
Resigning the Mars Society, Musk established his own organization --the Life to Mars Foundation. ?His enthusiasm for the space also attracted many other talents to work with him. Although so many people were skeptical of his crazy idea , Mush never flinched.
Russia refused to sell a rocket , Musk decided to build a rocket by themselves. He was serious and has spent months studying behind it. Later Mueller helped him to fill out the spreadsheet around the performance and the other cost matrics, subsequently refined the idea.?
SpaceX was founded in June 2002,after Musk knew that eBay wanted to buy Paypal and he will get enough money .It will focus on a modernized reset ,which is more suitable for commercial . He made a very tight schedule for rocket making .
A crew of committed engineers worked harder and longer time in approaching the project . But failure happened one after another . It would be about four years after Muck's original target , and the company had been chewing through his Internet fortune at a worrying rate . In this case, Musk still believed his capabilities and went on .
About Tesla:
In 2000, Eberhard had started to accept global warming as a reality and began looking for alternatives to gas-guzzling cars. From Internet , he knew the all -electric cars so he went to AC Propulsion for co-operation . But they rejected his overtures. He decided to form his own company .After many testing ,he came to conclusion that they would focus on lighter-weight and high-end sports cars.
On July 1 ,2003 , Eberhard and Tarpenning founded Tesla. They rented a decrepit old office and started their business . Because of lack of money ,they went hunting for some venture capital funding ,but only two of them would like to invest . Later they went to LA and met Musk . Musk agreed to invest and became the largest shareholder of Tesla with an investment of $6.5 million.
Not long after their meeting , Musk asked Straubel to meet with the Tesla team. On January 27,2005, an entirely new kind of car had been built . Musk was very delighted to keep investing .After solving the battery issue and mocking up new looks, the team built EP1 and then EP2. At the display event ,unexpectedly many celebrities ?wanted to pre-order their cars and Tesla got millions of dollars for producing . It was the first big success for Tesla.
By the middle of 2007, Tesla had grown to 260 employees and seemed to be pulling off the impossible .
Part 2. Thoughts
?不斷地失敗才是成功之母讶迁。
從這2章里娱仔，我們知道了SpaceX 和Tesla的創(chuàng)立過程若未。困難也是超出了我之前所想象的寿羞。特別是SpaceX, 我覺得Musk在這里是花最多心思的茄唐，幾乎是全程參與，當(dāng)然這也是最有技術(shù)含量的活柿隙，所以整個(gè)過程中骑疆，Musk都在不斷地招募補(bǔ)充最尖端的人才進(jìn)來，淘汰不符合的人许布。精英團(tuán)隊(duì)經(jīng)過反復(fù)的研究兴革，潛在風(fēng)險(xiǎn)的測(cè)試，相應(yīng)問題的解決蜜唾，再測(cè)試杂曲，就是在這種嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)態(tài)度的情況下，火箭反射還是一而再袁余，再而三的失敗了擎勘。每次失敗后，找出問題并最快時(shí)間解決泌霍。我們也看到了一次完美的發(fā)射背后是整個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)不懈努力货抄，淚水和汗水的結(jié)果。成功真的不是隨隨便便就可以來的朱转，需要付出蟹地，需要一次次沮喪后地再次振作！
我們常說: 失敗是成功之母藤为。其實(shí)我覺得不大對(duì)怪与，應(yīng)該是‘不斷地失敗才是成功之母”。我們的工作和學(xué)習(xí)為什么不能也力求完美呢缅疟？難道它們比火箭更難嗎分别？難的是沒有恒心和耐心！把Musk精神發(fā)揚(yáng)到我們的學(xué)習(xí)和事業(yè)中存淫，我們的未來也一定很美耘斩！
Part 3. Words
1. top-of-the-line
原文：The third Roadster engineering prototype went to the same collision testing facility used by large automakers,giving Tesla access to top-of-the-line high-speed cameras and other imaging technology.
解釋：adj.? the best one among the same products range ,（同類商品中）最好的，頂極的;最豪華的
例句：This is the top-of-the-line camera .
2.?from thin air?
原文：It have produced the fastest, most beautiful electric car the world had ever seen almost from thin air.
解釋：憑空變出來桅咆；
例句： The magician appeared ?to materialize the rabbit?from?thin?air.
魔術(shù)師看來似乎是憑空氣變出那兔子的括授。
延伸：into thin air ,無影無蹤，與from thin air 相反的意思
例句：They can not just vanish into thin air .他們不可能就神秘消失了岩饼。
3. grouse?
原文：Eberhard groused that these features were slowing the company down, and many of the engineers agreed.
解釋：verb (informal )to complain about sth/sb. 通常搭配about ,grouse about something
例句: People always groused about the economy ,interest rates and house price.
Part 4. Car-related Words
1.crash testing 沖撞測(cè)試
2.electronic sensors 電動(dòng)傳感器
3. rearview mirrors 后視鏡
4. windshield 擋風(fēng)玻璃
5.upholstery 車室內(nèi)裝飾品
6.two-seater 兩座的
7.chassis 底盤
8.dashboard gauge 儀表盤
9. gear 檔
10. reverse gear 倒檔
11. change/shift gear 換檔
12.clutch 離合器
