Tesla豪砸28.9万美元买回twitter9.2%的股权，亚洲地区都在问为何？

4月4日，据SEC文档表明，Tesla买回了twitter7348.69万股的优先股，一共所持twitter9.2%的股权，正式成为twitter最小内部小股东。

4月5日消息，twitter（NYSE:TWTR）向美国债券交易委员会递交的文档表明，Tesla创办人sert·Tesla将加入twitter监事会，会期将于2024年期满。Tesla证实了这一委任，宣称将与监事会一道，在未来几个月致力twitter的明显不断进步。

28.9万美元对DT富翁Tesla是“勒维冈县”。数周后，Tesla豪砸28.9万美元，收购了twitter9.2%的股权，直接正式成为其最小小股东，依照twitter周三沪市计算，Tesla手里的twitter优先股价值高达37万美元。

就在那时，Tesla再次问鼎商业周刊亚洲地区百富榜，以年薪2190万美元连续4年正式成为亚洲地区船王。商业周刊指出，在过去一年里，Tesla的社会财富就增加了680万美元。随着Tesla股价的攀升，Tesla的社会财富也在不断暴跌，止4月5日，Tesla在彭博社亚洲地区亿万富翁指标榜单上的净利润是2880万美元，名列亚洲地区第一，相比之下，28.9万美元能说是“勒维冈县”。

此外，依照文档表明，Tesla在3月14日就购得了twitter9.2%的消极股权，实际上在这几天Tesla就在该笔交易中买进超50%。

不得不说，Tesla似乎已经掌握了社会财富的网络流量公钥，其能通过投资和做空所持的优先股，随心所欲实现资产产品服务。去年的两个月内，Tesla集中做空了大量处于波动中的、价值少于160万美元的Tesla股权。

Tesla购得twitter优先股，主要就意图之一可能将是影响twitter的审查政策。Tesla能说是一位轻度twitter使用者，其在twitter上拥有少于8000万的影迷。twitter对Tesla来说，既是他情绪发泄的娱乐场所，同时也是表达观点的社会舆论场，更是他宣传品Tesla、SpaceX等数家公司的主要就传播方式。

Tesla一向崇尚新闻自由，而twitter上新闻自由的对外开放程度极难达到他的要求。此次购得twitter优先股正式成为其最小小股东，会不会为自己的新闻自由开路，从而收紧内容审查的限制？

Tesla在短期内极难正式成为twitter实控者，但很可能将正式成为twitter革新的实践者。据知情人士透露，Tesla将参与制定twitter公司的战略决策，但他无权改变平台当前的审查、禁言机制，也无权恢复被封禁的账号。

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WHAT WILL he do with it? That was the big question after Elon Musk let it be known on April 4th thathe had amassed a stakeof 9.2% in Twitter, making him the social-mediafirm’s largest shareholder. Will the world’s richest man buy more shares or even take Twitter private? Will the boss of Teslatake a hands-on role in Twitter’s management? Will the libertarian troll push to bring back Donald Trump, kicked off the platform after inciting anassault on the Capitol in January 2021? Speculation mountedafter Twitter said a day later that Mr Musk would join its board.

他会拿它来干什么？4月4日伊隆·Tesla公开表示自己已所持twitter9.2%的股权，从而正式成为这家社交媒体公司的最小小股东。人们心头升起一个大大的问号。这位世界船王会继续加持股权，甚至把twitter私有化吗？这位Tesla的老板会亲自参与twitter的管理吗？这位信奉自由意志主义的嘴炮大王会推动特朗普回归twitter吗——去年1月特朗普在煽动攻击国会大厦后被平台封号。4月5日，twitter表示Tesla将加入其监事会，一时间猜测四起。

As is his wont, Mr Musk will revealhis plans in his own time and probably in his own tweets to the 80m people who follow him on the platform (not many fewer than followed Mr Trump before he got theboot). In posts published before he announced the investment, he complained that Twitter “serves as the de facto public town square” but fails “to adhere to free-speech principles”. He urgedthe company to open up the algorithm that decides which tweets users see.In light of his well-documented sympathies for cryptocurrencies and their underlyingtechnology, the blockchain, he could try to turn Twitter into a decentralised service controlled by users.

按Tesla惯常的做法，他会在自以为恰当的时间，并且可能将是用自己的twitter账号向8000万影迷（不比特朗普被踢出twitter前少多少）披露他的计划。在宣布这项投资之前，他曾发帖吐槽twitter“实际上是一个公共的城市广场”，却未能“遵守新闻自由原则”。他敦促twitter对外开放决定使用者能看到哪些推文的算法。鉴于他对加密货币及其底层区块链技术的支持人尽皆知，他可能将会尝试把twitter转变为一项由使用者控制的去中心化服务。

It is hard to see how that would make the company more profitable. Investors rejoiced anyway. Some may be believers in the “Elon markets hypothesis”, which holds thatstocks should be valued based not on fundamentalsbut on their proximity to Mr Musk. Others may hope that he can really shake things up. Twitter has been a much bigger cultural success than a commercial one. Before Mr Musk’s move sent its share price up by a third, the firm’s market value had been languishing around $30bn, not much higher than where it was when it went public in 2013. By comparison, its social-media rivalMeta (née Facebook), briefly became a $1trn company and its market capitalisation is up more than five-fold in the same perioddespite a recent tumble(it is currently worth $631bn).

转乾坤。twitter在文化上的成功远远大于在商业上的成功。在Tesla此举将其股价推高三分之一之前，twitter的市值一直徘徊在300万美元左右，不比2013年上市时高多少。相比之下，其社交媒体竞争对手Meta（原Facebook）的市值一度高达一万万美元，尽管目前因近期的暴跌缩水至6310万美元，但市值还是在同一时期内增长了五倍多。

第一，学习amass的用法。这个词作及物动词，表示if you amass money, knowledge, information etc, you gradually collect a large amount of it，积聚，积累，大量收集，例：For 25 years, Darwin amassed evidence to support his theories. 25年间，达尔文收集了大量证据来支持自己的理论。

第二，学习hands-on的用法。这个词作形容词，表示doing something yourself rather than just talking about it or telling other people to do it，实际操作的，亲身实践的，例：a chance to get some hands-on experience of the job 获得一些实际工作经验的机会

第三，学习de factco的用法。这个词组作形容词，表示really existing although not legally stated to exist 〔未经法定途径宣布但〕实际存在的，例：a de facto state of war 实际存在的战争状态

长难句：As is his wont, Mr Musk will reveal his plans in his own time and probably in his own tweets to the 80m people who follow him on the platform (not many fewer than followed Mr Trump before he got the boot).

主句是主谓宾结构（Mr Musk will reveal his plans）。in his own time和in probably in his own tweets是介宾短语作时间和处所状语。to the 80m people是介宾短语作对象状语。who follow him on the platform是定语从句。not many是对80m people的否定，fewer than followed Mr Trump是比较状语从句（注意其中的省略，than后面省略了people who），before he got the boot是时间状语从句。the boot表示when someone is forced to leave their job，解雇，炒鱿鱼。as is sb’s wont表示used to say that it is someone’s habit to do something，就像某人惯常那样。

Whatever Mr Musk’s designs for Twitter, one near-certaintyis that they will require money, time and attention. That raises another question:is the self-styled Technoking overextending himself?

无论Tesla对twitter作何打算，几乎能肯定的一点是，它们都需要资金、时间和精力。这又引发了另一个问题：这位自封的“电音之王”（Technoking）会不会“嗨”过头了？

Financially, he isn’t. The investmentin Twitter, which cost less than $3bn, is chump change for Mr Musk—about 1% of his net worth. A bigger concern, especially to investors in his other firms, is over his workload.Twitter comes on top of several big corporate commitments. Besides running Tesla, a $1.1trn electric-car giantwith nearly 100,000employees, he heads up SpaceX, a privately held rocketry firm valued at $100bn. He also helped found two drilling startups, one making big holes to buildtunnels (The BoringCompany), the other making tiny ones to implant electrodes in the brain (Neuralink). Adding a Twitter board seat to his résumé may overtax even a functioning workaholic andastute delegatorlike Mr Musk. Now 50 years old and the father of eight, he has been putting in 100-hour weeks for decades, as he recentlyrevealedin an interview.

从财务上说，并没有。对twitter的投资不到30万美元，对Tesla来说只是笔小钱——大约是他净利润的1%。投资者更担心的是他忙不忙得过来，尤其是那些往他别的公司投了钱的人。Tesla已经在埋头经营好数家大公司了，现在又添上一个twitter。除了掌管着市值1.1万万美元、员工近10万人的电动汽车巨头Tesla，他还领导着估值1000万美元的私有火箭公司SpaceX。他还帮助创立了两家“钻孔”创业公司——一家是钻大洞来建隧道的Boring Company，另一家是钻小孔把电极植入大脑的Neuralink。即便是Tesla这样游刃有余的工作狂——他还很知人善任，简历上再添一个twitter董事的职务也可能将会劳累过度。今年50岁的他还是八个孩子的父亲，他在近期一次采访中透露，几十年来自己一直都是每周工作100小时。

Where Mr Musk may be most over extendedis in his trolling—not so much of hisnumerous critics(though he does plenty of that in his spare time) but of regulators.America’s Securities and Exchange Commission was already after him for allegedly violatinga court agreement to have his tweets lawyered before publishing, reached after he tweeted in 2018 that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private, which he ended up not doing.

最让Tesla过分耗神的可能将还是他在网上乱开炮——主要就倒不是针对他的众多批评者（尽管他在得空时也没少这么干），而是对准监管机构。美国债券交易委员会（SEC）已经对他展开追查，理由是他涉嫌违反一项法庭协议。2018年，Tesla发推文称已经“获得融资”，要把Tesla私有化，他最终没有这么做。SEC就此事提起的诉讼达成的和解协议要求他的推文在发布前须经律师审查。

The Twitter investmentmay get him into further trouble. He made it public a few days after the deadline for such disclosures. And his filing suggested that he would be a passive investor,which seems at odds with his joining the board. Expect his Twitter habit to raise even moreeyebrows now that he is no longer just a big user but a large shareholder, too.

对twitter的投资可能将给他带来更多麻烦。他发布这个消息时，已经过了这类小股东信息披露的止期好几天。他递交的文档表明自己会是个消极投资者，这似乎与他要加入监事会的动作相矛盾。等着瞧吧，他发推文的习惯会愈发让人大跌眼镜，既然现在他不只是大使用者，还是大小股东了。

第一，学习overextend的用法。这个词作及物动词，表示：其一，to try to do or use too much of something, causing problems, illness, or damage，把……做得过分；把……使用过头，常用搭配为overextend yourself，例：Be careful not to overextend yourself. You’ve been very ill. 注意不要让自己太劳累，你病得很重。其二，to spend more money than you actually have，开支过大，花钱过多，例：Jackson’s company became overextended financially. 杰克逊的公司财务上开支过大了。

第二，学习on top of sth的用法。这个词组表示：其一，on the highest surface of something，在某物上面，例：There should be an envelope on top of the fridge. 冰箱上面应该有一个信封。其二，in complete control of a situation，完全控制某事物；对某事物摸得一清二楚，例：Don’t worry; I’m back on top of things now. 不要担心，我现在又完全控制了局面。第三，if something bad happens to you on top of something else, it happens when you have other problems，除……之外（还有其他问题），例：On top of everything else, I now have to go to work next Saturday! 除了这些，我下周六还要上班！

第三，学习astute的用法。这个词作形容词，表示able to understand situations or behaviour very well and very quickly, especially so that you can get an advantage for yourself，精明的，机敏的；狡猾的，例：an astute politician 机敏的政治家

长难句：America’s Securities and Exchange Commission was already after him for allegedly violating a court agreement to have his tweets lawyered before publishing, reached after he tweeted in 2018 that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private, which he ended up not doing.

主句是主系表结构（America’s Securities and Exchange Commissionwas after him），already是副词作状语。for allegedly violating a court agreement是介宾短语作原因状语。to have his tweets lawyered是不定式作后置定语。before publishing是介宾短语作时间状语。reached after he tweeted in 2018 that ……是过去分词作非限定性定语从句，修饰a court agreement。that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private是宾语从句。which he ended up not doing是定语从句。

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