Part 1 三个词

✏️pitch

原文：then ride a bicycle to the Stanford campus to make his sales pitch

朗文释义：PERSUADING 说服  [C] the things someone says to persuade people to buy something, do something, or accept an idea informal 叫卖语，广告语；宣传 【非正式】

例句：an aggressive salesman with a fast-talking sales pitch  推销时说话像连珠炮一般咄咄逼人的推销员

make a/sb’s pitch (for sth)(= try to persuade people to do something) （推销宣传 某事物）

例句：He made his strongest pitch yet for standardized testing in schools.

他以前所未有的力度鼓吹学校应推行标准化考试。

造句: It is no use making your pitch for selling apartment to me, since I am just a poor student.

✏️wield

原文：Musk would later wield his position of strength well while battling Eberhard for control of Tesla.

朗文释义：wield power/influence/authority etc

to have a lot of power or influence, and to use it 拥有并使用权力/影响/权威等

例句：The Church wields immense power in Ireland. 在爱尔兰，教会操纵着大权。

造句：She wields little influence at the company.

✏️dabble

原文：There were companies dabbling with new uses for solar power

朗文释义：[I] to do something or be involved in something in a way that is not very serious涉猎[而不深入钻研]，浅尝  [+ in/at/with]

例句：people who dabble in painting as a way of relaxing 把画画当成一种休闲方式的人

造句： I have been dabbling in translating for a while since two years ago.

Part 2 两点感想

第七章是从一个叫J.B. Straubel的人说起的。文章中明确提到“All of this fit into the Straubel family's do-it-yourself traditions.”而Musk小时候也是受到了父亲影响才慢慢有了后来的成就，因此我也再次意识到一个人的成长离不开他的家庭背景。

第二个感想蛮老套的——“兴趣是最好的老师”。“Straubel had to create a controller to manage the electric motor, build a charger from scratch, and write the software that made the entire machine work."因为我是学软件的，看到他“write the software that made the entire machine work”还有Musk 12岁就设计了一个游戏软件就觉得。。果然有兴趣就是不一样。我大部分时候都是：没有太大兴趣，分到这个专业就好好学咯。成绩也不会太差，但是也不会平时没事干就自己钻研钻研钻研……