曝马斯克可能已有100多个孩子

近日，美国《大西洋月刊》的记者伊丽莎白·布鲁尼格（Elizabeth Bruenig）透露，马斯克的孩子数量可能已超过100个，远高于公众所知道的14个。

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🤔️小作业：

1. What can be inferred about the tone of Camerota's remarks regarding Musk's family situation?

A) Admiring and supportive

B) Critical and skeptical

C) Neutral and factual

D) Sympathetic but reserved

无注释原文：

Atlantic Writer Speculates Elon Musk Could Have '100 or More' Children: 'Definitely More Than 14'

From: The Wrap

Elon Musk is known to have at least 14 children, but the real number could be much higher than that, The Atlantic's Elizabeth Bruenig told Alisyn Camerota and Dave Briggs on the “Sanity” podcast in an interview shared Friday.

“I believe he has 14 known children, but people who spoke to the Wall Street Journal for their exposé on his childbearing habits suggested the number is much higher,” she said. “I have heard people estimate [it] at 100 or more.” Bruenig is the author of the piece “The Harem of Elon Musk.”

“That would surprise me, but it's definitely higher than 14,” Bruenig continued. “And so far, I think there are four women he's had children with. Let's see. Possibly five with the addition of Ashley St. Clair, but I think it's four.”

Camerota jumped in and added that “the reason we don't know about “all these other children and women is because he makes his baby mamas sign NDAs and he's very lawyered up and he's litigious and he does sue them if they speak” — and Musk pays the mothers of his children a lot of money to stay silent.

St. Clair reportedly received $15 million and a $ 100,000-a-month living stipend to keep news of the birth of the pair's baby quiet, Bruenig added.

Later in the segment, Camerota questioned how the assumed “family values” platform of the Republican Party intersects with Musk's fatherhood habits. “It's also weird, Elizabeth, and obviously it's ripe for comedy, but there's something very dystopian, I find, about this and dark and, I mean and hypocritical, wildly hypocritically, because let's remember that it's Republicans who have always championed family values,” she said.

“How is this family values? He doesn't acknowledge some of his children. And he refuses to be on the birth certificate. Of some of his children. He pays off the women. He attacks them in court. He, as you know, he's estranged from one of his, children, Vivian. I mean, this flies in the face of anything that any sane person sees as family values.”

Bruenig explained that she believes Musk is not seeking a traditional family or partnership, but something else entirely.

“Elon Musk has tweeted many times and spoken many times about his notion that birth rate declines mean the future of human civilization is in danger,” she said, and Musk “really wants smart people to be having children.”

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含注释全文：

Atlantic Writer Speculates Elon Musk Could Have '100 or More' Children: 'Definitely More Than 14'

From: The Wrap

Elon Musk is known to have at least 14 children, but the real number could be much higher than that, The Atlantic's Elizabeth Bruenig told Alisyn Camerota and Dave Briggs on the “Sanity” podcast in an interview shared Friday.

《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）记者伊丽莎白·布鲁尼格（Elizabeth Bruenig）在“理智”（Sanity）播客节目中接受阿莉森·卡梅罗塔（Alisyn Camerota）与戴夫·布里格斯（Dave Briggs）采访时指出，虽然外界普遍认为埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）至少育有14名子女，但真实数字或远超这一水平。

sanity /ˈsæn.ə.ti/ 1）表示“明智；理智；通情达理”，英文解释为“the state of being sensible and reasonable”举个🌰：After a series of road accidents the police pleaded for sanity among drivers. 在发生一系列交通事故之后，警方提请驾驶人要谨慎驾车。

2）表示“精神健全；神志正常”，英文解释为“the state of having a normal healthy mind”举个🌰：His behaviour was so strange that I began to doubt his sanity. 他行为怪异，我有点怀疑他是否神智正常。

“I believe he has 14 known children, but people who spoke to the Wall Street Journal for their exposé on his childbearing habits suggested the number is much higher,” she said. “I have heard people estimate [it] at 100 or more.” Bruenig is the author of the piece “The Harem of Elon Musk.”

她表示：“虽然目前已知他有14名子女，但在《华尔街日报》（Wall Street Journal）披露其生育情况的报道中，受访者称实际数量要多得多。我听说有人估计可能达到100多个。”布鲁尼格是《埃隆·马斯克的后宫》（The Harem of Elon Musk）一文的作者。

exposé /ekˈspəʊ.zeɪ/ 表示“（尤指对令人震惊或保密之事的）曝光报道”，英文解释为“a public report of the facts about a situation, especially one that is shocking or has been kept secret”

childbearing /ˈtʃaɪldˌbeə.rɪŋ/ 表示“分娩；生孩子”，英文解释为“the process of having babies”举个🌰：The survey is only concerned with women of childbearing age. 该调查只涉及育龄妇女。

piece /piːs/ 熟词僻义，表示“（艺术家、音乐家或作家的）作品；篇，段，首，幅”，英文解释为“something that has been created by an artist, musician, or writer”如：an orchestral/piano/instrumental piece 管弦乐/钢琴曲/器乐作品。

harem /ˈhɑː.riːm/ 表示“（尤指旧时伊斯兰教徒的）妻妾；（穆斯林住宅中的）闺阁，闺房”，英文解释为“especially in the past in some Muslim societies, the wives or other female sexual partners of a man, or the part of a house in which they live”

“That would surprise me, but it's definitely higher than 14,” Bruenig continued. “And so far, I think there are four women he's had children with. Let's see. Possibly five with the addition of Ashley St. Clair, but I think it's four.”

布鲁尼格接着说：“虽然这个数量让我很意外，但毫无疑问已经超过了14个。目前我认为他与四位女性育有子女。让我想想，算上阿什莉·圣克莱尔（Ashley St. Clair）的话可能是五位，但我认为是四位。” 

Camerota jumped in and added that “the reason we don't know about all these other children and women is because he makes his baby mamas sign NDAs and he's very lawyered up and he's litigious and he does sue them if they speak” — and Musk pays the mothers of his children a lot of money to stay silent.

卡梅罗塔打断补充称，“之所以我们不知道这些孩子和女性的具体情况，是因为他让孩子的母亲们签署保密协议（NDA），而且他法律顾问众多，动不动就对发声的人提起诉讼”——而他还以高额金钱封口，换取这些母亲的沉默。

jump in 表示“打断，插嘴”，英文解释为“to interrupt when someone else is speaking”举个🌰：I wish you'd stop jumping in and finishing my sentences for me all the time. 希望你别老打断我，接我的话茬。

NDA，non-disclosure agreement的缩写，表示“保密协议”，英文解释为“abbreviation for non-disclosure agreement: a legal document stating that someone will not tell anyone certain private information, especially about the company they work for”举个🌰：I think it's smart that she's had employees sign NDAs. 我觉得她让雇员签署保密协议是明智的做法。

litigious /lɪˈtɪdʒ.əs/ 表示“爱打官司的，好诉讼的”，英文解释为“too often taking arguments to a court of law for a decision, especially to win money in a lawsuit”举个🌰：The US is the most litigious society in the world. 美国是世界上最爱打官司的社会。

St. Clair reportedly received $15 million and a $100,000-a-month living stipend to keep news of the birth of the pair's baby quiet, Bruenig added.

布鲁尼格补充说，据称为了保守两人孩子出生的秘密，阿什莉·圣克莱尔得到了1500万美元补偿以及每月10万美元的生活费。

stipend /ˈstaɪ.pend/ 表示“薪俸，薪金”，英文解释为“a particular amount of money that is paid regularly to someone”如：anannualstipend年薪。

Later in the segment, Camerota questioned how the assumed “family values” platform of the Republican Party intersects with Musk's fatherhood habits. “It's also weird, Elizabeth, and obviously it's ripe for comedy, but there's something very dystopian, I find, about this and dark and, I mean and hypocritical, wildly hypocritically, because let's remember that it's Republicans who have always championed family values,” she said.

在节目的后半段，卡梅罗塔提出质疑：共和党推崇的“家庭价值观”与马斯克当前的父亲形象是否存在冲突。她说：“伊丽莎白，这一切实在令人费解，也确实很适合讽刺喜剧，但我觉得这种现象透露出一种反乌托邦式的黑暗与虚伪，极端的虚伪，要知道，正是共和党人一直在标榜所谓的家庭价值观。”

segment /ˈseɡ.mənt/ 1）作名词，可以表示“（群体或事物的）部分，片，段；（柑橘、柠檬的）瓣；（圆的一部分）弓形”，举个🌰：She cleaned a small segment of the painting. 她擦干净了这幅画的一小部分。

2）表示“分割；划分”，英文解释为“to divide sth into different parts”举个🌰：Market researchers often segment the population on the basis of age and social class. 市场研究人员常常按年龄和社会阶层划分人口。

3）表示“（电视、广播或互联网节目的）节，段”，英文解释为“a short piece of film that forms part of a television or radio programme, or that is broadcast on the internet”举个🌰：CNN last week broadcast a segment on homicides in the city. CNN上周播出了有关这座城市凶杀状况节目的一段。

intersect /ˌɪn.təˈsekt/ 1）表示“（线条、道路等）（和…）相交，（和…）交叉”，英文解释为“(of lines, roads, etc.) to cross one another”举个🌰：The roads intersect near the bridge. 这些道路在大桥附近相交。

2）表示“贯穿，横穿”，英文解释为“to divide an area into smaller parts by crossing it with straight lines”举个🌰：The gardens are intersected by gravel paths. 这些花园里碎石小道纵横交错。

ripe for sth 表示“时机成熟的；适宜的”，英文解释为“developed to a suitable condition for something to happen”举个🌰：The company is ripe for takeover. 对这家公司进行收购的时机已经成熟。

dystopian /dɪsˈtoʊpiən/ 表示“反面假想国的；反面乌托邦的”，英文解释为“relating to a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, or to the description of such a society”。

hypocritical /ˌhɪp.əˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/ 表示“虚伪的；伪善的”，英文解释为“saying that you have particular moral beliefs but behaving in a way that shows these are not sincere”

champion /ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/ 作动词，表示“支持，声援；捍卫，为…斗争”，英文解释为“to support, defend, or fight for a person, belief, right, or principle enthusiastically”

“How is this family values? He doesn't acknowledge some of his children. And he refuses to be on the birth certificate. Of some of his children. He pays off the women. He attacks them in court. He, as you know, he's estranged from one of his, children, Vivian. I mean, this flies in the face of anything that any sane person sees as family values.”

“这怎么能算是家庭价值观？他不承认自己的部分孩子，还拒绝在他们的出生证明上署名。他用金钱打发这些女性，还对她们提起诉讼。你知道的，他甚至与自己的孩子薇薇安（Vivian）关系决裂。说真的，这完全违背了任何有理性的人所认定的家庭价值观。”

1）表示“分居的”，英文解释为“An estranged wife or husband is no longer living with their husband or wife.”如：his estranged wife 与他分居的妻子。

2）表示“（与家人、朋友）疏远的”，英文解释为“If you are estranged from your family or friends, you have quarrelled with them and are not communicating with them.”举个🌰：She spent most of her twenties virtually estranged from her father. 她在20多岁的大部分时间和她爸爸几乎不来往。

3）表示“脱离的”，英文解释为“If you describe someone as estranged from something such as society or their profession, you mean that they no longer seem involved in it.”举个🌰：He became increasingly estranged from the mainstream of Hollywood. 他变得越来越脱离好莱坞主流了。

sane /seɪn/ 1）表示“心智健全的，神智正常的；头脑清醒的”，英文解释为“having a healthy mind and not mentally ill”举个🌰：In the doctor's opinion he was sane at the time of the murder. 按照医生的看法，他在谋杀时神志清醒。

2）表示“明智的”，英文解释为“showing good judgment and understanding”举个🌰：It was a sane decision and one we all respected. 这是一个明智的决定，也是我们都尊重的决定。

Bruenig explained that she believes Musk is not seeking a traditional family or partnership, but something else entirely.

布鲁尼格解释说，她认为马斯克并不是在追求传统意义上的家庭或伴侣关系，而是另有所图。

“Elon Musk has tweeted many times and spoken many times about his notion that birth rate declines mean the future of human civilization is in danger,” she said, and Musk “really wants smart people to be having children.”

她说：“埃隆·马斯克曾多次在推特上发文和公开发言，表达他对出生率下降将危及人类文明未来的担忧，”并指出马斯克“真的希望聪明的人能多生孩子。”

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