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Chapter 1 Elon's World (P1-25)

Sentences:

1. These two feats elevated Musk to the rarest heights among business titans.

2. While the good times have been well chronicled, the subsequent bad times have been--unsurpringly--ignored. It's more fun to reminiscence on irrational exuberance than the mess that gets left behind.

3. Musk's uproarious laugh would erupt every few minutes and carry through the entire floor.

4. San Francisco has an enduring history with greed.

5. It gained direct insight into the latest and greatest technology around materials, energy, and software.

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Expressions:

1. pump out=produce quickly

In the years that followed, the goal went from taking huge risks to create new industries and grand new ideas, to chasing easier money by entertaining consumers and pumping out simple apps and advertisements.

Definition: it means to produce or supply it continually and in large amounts.

Example:Japanese companies have been pumping out plenty of innovative products...

日本公司一直在生产大量富有创意的产品。

My sentence: The team were so creative that they can pump out some constructive suggestions from time to time.

2. fresh out of

He jumped right into dot-com mania in 1995, when, fresh out of college, he founded a company called Zip2--a primitive Google Maps neets Yelp.

Definition:  having just finished your education or training, and not having a lot of experiments.

Example: He’s fresh out of law school.

My sentence: I was fresh out of college in 2016.

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Summary:

I finished the chapter 1 today, named as Elon's World. Actually, it talked more about the background, including the foundation and building of his compsnies, his characteristics and so on. Among which, I was astounished by the grandeur of the main building, as well as his idea. As his ex-wife said, He does what he wants, and he is relentless about it. Sometimes, I think such kind of people are born in nature. They can control their lust for all entertainment activities or others. They are determined to their goals and nothing can impede their path. Just like my boyfriend, he can control himself from eating junk food and keep exercise everyday, but I do worse. He is my idol in this aspect, and I want to be self-discipline as much as he could do.

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