面对失败,Musk和他的团队该怎样应对?
2004年秋,引擎验收合格。
2005年5月 准备进行test fire 但发射地遇到问题,不得已选址kwaj。
2005年11月26日 试射第一次,因液氧阀门问题中止;2005年12月中旬 试射第二次,因天气和阀门故障中止;第三次因为动力系统故障,虽然三十人的团队极其高效地在80个小时之内解决了问题,但是终因经验不足、条件不具备未能发射。
2006年3月24日 Falcon 1 发射失败,起飞后坠落。
2007年3月15日 试射成功。
2007年3月21日 Falcon1 发射失败。
从2002年6月成立之初,四年来Musk的团队夜以继日,争分夺秒,极其高效地完成甚至庞大的机构都难以应对的研发,但是终因经验不足发射失败。
在面对失败,尤其是接二连三的失败是最考验人的时候。亦如Musk在最初决定自己制造火箭之时,就面对众多质疑,毕竟这算是世界上最烧钱的行当了吧?稍有不慎,赔上身家,十之有九啊。
They knew all too well the stories of gung-ho millionaires who thought they could conquer space only to lose theri forturnes.
现在历经艰辛研发的火箭又遭遇接连失败。团队也备受打击,对未来迷茫。大家都在担心恐怕这“天价火箭”玩不下去了。
The failure was another crushing blow to SpaceX's engineers . ..It would be about four years after Musk's original target ,and the company had been chewing ghrought his Internet forturne at a worrying rate .
Musk毅然义无反顾,再苦再难也要坚持下去!给周围人以力量和信心!
Musk had vowed publicly that he would see this thing through to the end ....To the extent that the financial situation unnerved Musk ,he rarely if ever let it show to employees . "Elon did a great job of not burdening people with those worries" ....
下面这句话太鼓舞人心了,不放弃,不言败。他身上这种proactive的品质太强了。眼光总是放在如何解决问题,找到答案,而不是悲伤气馁。
" He always communicate the importance of being lean and of success ,but it was never 'if we fail ,we're done for '
回译和字词
1、与其花时间和其他公司争论,Branden另辟蹊径,想出了一个更快的解决方案。
Instead of taking time to haggle with the other companies for right of way, Branden came up with a quicker, more devious solution.
Haggle =argue about something 争论(尤指讨价还价)
例:Ella showedher the best places to go for a good buy, and taught her how to haggle withused furniture dealers./to haggle over the price.
Devious :①behaving in a dishonest way in order to get sth例句:He got rich by devious means
②not direct .例如:deviousroute /path
2、这种鲁莽居功的姿态激怒了Space X工厂里长期埋头苦干的员工。
This audacious gesture really gratedon the people toiling away in the Space X factory
Audacious=fearless , to take risk to achievesth
Grate: Someone’s behavior grates on you or grates, it makes you feel annoyed.使恼火
例:His manner always grated on me.他的举止总是令我很恼火。
Toil : work very hard doing unpleasant or tiring tasks.辛苦工作
例:Workers toiled long hours.工人们长时间辛苦工作。
短语:Toil away
例:He doesn't spend every minute toiling away at his desk.他并非每分钟都在伏案辛苦地工作。
3、它冲上云霄,下面的小岛变成了蓝色汪洋里的一个绿色小点。
It soared into the sky, turning the islandbelow in into a green speck amid a vast, blue expanse.
soars into the air=it goes quickly up into the air. 高飞
Expanse :An expanse of sea, sky, or land一大片(海洋、天空、土地等)
例:...a vast expanse of grassland.…一大片草地。
4、这一章中有关精神、士气之类的表达
发挥…精神 Operate in the spirit of a silicon valley start-up .
发挥不屈不挠的精神 put SpaceX’s relentless ethos into play .
鼓舞士气 the resultantmammoth government contractor held a picnic to boost morale but ended up failing at ever this simple exercise.
本性使然:Bowing to his nature, Musk set an insanely ambitious timeline for all of this .