“世界新首富”马斯克
2021年1月7日，“硅谷霸道总裁”、特斯拉CEO埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）超越亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝索斯（Jeff Bezos）成为新任世界首富。根据富豪榜的最新数据，马斯克个人资产升至1950亿美元（约合人民币1,2609亿）。
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How Elon Musk Became Elon Musk
Elon Musk just became the richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $185 billion. Thursday’s increase in Tesla’s share price pushed Musk past Jeff Bezos, who had been the richest person since 2017 and is currently worth about $184 billion. Musk’s wealth surge (剧增) over the past year marks the fastest rise to the top of the rich list in history.
Elon Musk is the co-founder of PayPal (PYPL), Tesla Motors (TSLA), and SolarCity (SCTY), and is the founder of SpaceX. His surprising success has given rise tocomparisons of Musk and Steve Jobs, Howard Hughes, Henry Ford, and Bill Gates. During an often difficult childhood, Musk developed a continuous work ethic (职业道德) (he is known to work as many as 80 to 100 hours per week) and a tenacious (顽强的) single-minded vision.
He is the oldest of three children in an ambitious family. After his parents divorced when he was a child, Musk lived mostly with his father. He read many books and was also a crazy fan of comics. Self-described as a bookworm andsomething of a smart aleck (自作聪明的人), he was bullied (欺负) in school and withdrew to his books at the expense of his social life. At the age of 10, Musk was introduced to computers. He quickly learned how to program. At that time, Musk, along with his brother, planned to open a video game arcade (街机游戏) near their school. Finally, their parents nixed the plan. But apparently the only thing stopping them was the need for a city permit which had to be applied for by an adult.
Musk’s intellectual genius did him few favors as a child. He found few friends in the tough-minded Afrikaner (荷兰裔南非白人的) culture he encountered in school. “I had a terrible upbringing. I had a lot of adversity (逆境) growing up. One thing Iworry about with my kids is that they don’t face enough adversity.” Musk started school a year early; he attended the English-speaking Waterkloof House Preparatory School, and later graduated from Pretoria Boys High School. The years were lonely and cruel, from his descriptions.
If there was a point of bright escape for Musk, it was technology. When he was only 10, he became familiar with programming via the Commodore VIC-20, an inexpensive home computer. Before long, he had become skilled enough to create Blastar—a video game in the style of Space-Invaders. He sold the basic code for the game to a magazine called PC and Office Technology for $500. It can be considered as the start of his legendary career.
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【文章标题】
How Elon Musk Became Elon Musk（埃隆·马斯克是如何成为埃隆·马斯克的）
【出处】Investopedia《投资百科》
【文章词数】445
【TL指数】53
【主题语境】人与社会——历史、社会与文化——对社会突出贡献的人物
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Elon Musk 埃隆·马斯克
埃隆·马斯克出生于1971年，企业家、慈善家，出生于南非，毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学，以SpaceX的创办者及特斯拉汽车和PayPal的联合创办人而闻名，是2019年霍金科学传播奖获得者，现任SpaceX CEO兼CTO，被誉为“硅谷钢铁侠”。2021年1月8日，最新彭博亿万富翁指数显示，埃隆·马斯克资产高达1950亿美元，成为全球新首富。
Jeff Bezos 杰夫·贝佐斯
杰夫·贝佐斯，企业家，出生于美国新墨西哥州，毕业于普林斯顿大学，互联网巨头亚马逊公司创始人、董事长兼CEO，华盛顿邮报大股东之一。他于1995年创办亚马逊公司并于两年后带领公司成功上市。2018年首登世界首富之位。
语篇结构解读
语言知识挖掘
（一）重点词汇
1. increase n.
常用含义：增加
反义词：decrease
2. wealth n.
常用含义：财富
3. mark v.
常用含义：标志
4. ambitious adj.
常用含义：有雄心的
5. apparent adj.
常用含义：明显的
近义词：evident, obvious
（二）熟词生义
（三）地道表达
1. give rise to
常用含义：引起，使发生
实际应用：
Thought cannot give rise to matter. 思想不能产生物质。
2. something of
常用含义：在某种意义上；有几分；在某种程度上；有点儿
实际应用：
She is something of an artist. 她有几分艺术家的味道。
3. at the age of
常用含义：在……岁
实际应用：
He’d dropped out of high school at the age of 16. 他16岁的时候就从中学退学了。
4. apply for
常用含义：申请
实际应用：
I am applying for a job as a clerk. 我正在申请一个做职员的工作。
5. worry about
常用含义：焦虑……；担心……
实际应用：
Don’t worry about me. I’ll be all right. 别为我担忧，我会没事的。
6. graduate from
常用含义：毕业于，从……毕业
实际应用：
He graduated from Stanford with a degree in Law. 他从斯坦福毕业，获得法学学位。
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