词汇
动词 +介词
①heap praise/ insults on sb: to praise or insult etc someone a lot 对...大加称赞
Reporters who months earlier had been heaping adulation on Musk turned on him.
②egg sb on, you encourage them to do sth. 怂恿，煽动
The more Musk and Riley talked, the more Lee egged them on.
③coax ...into...to persuade someone to do something that they do not want to do by talking to them in a kind, gentle, and patient way 劝诱，哄；诱导
Lee coaxed Musk into going to a club called Whisky Mist, in Mayfair.
④ emanate from something ：to come from something or somewhere 源于
Its foibles emanate directly from him, as do its successes.
形容词 +名词
mounting pressure / raucous cheers / emotional experiences/ mammoth victory
形近义反
①pros and cons
③friend and foe
④virtues and vices
⑤virtuous and vicious cycle
⑤condone and condemn
⑥years in and years out
例句：
When Eberhard started a blog detailing the pros and cons of being a Tesla customer, the auto site was all too happy to echo his gripes
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that t he torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans
Summary
In chapter 8 and 9, Musk was not only suffered divorce, but also crippled by financial situations of SpaceX. Without shrinking, Elon enabled SpaceX to survive and taped into space further.
In 2007, Elon break up with Justine. There were mixing grounds of the divorce, maybe chief among them were too much of work Elon need to do to care about his family. A couple weeks later, Elon came across with Riley, a budding actress, and proposed decidedly.
During this period, Elon zigzagged his way to success excruciatingly, owing to severe funding shortages and amount of ridicules from the press, ValleyWag and the Truth About Cars is a case in point. Meanwhile, Vantage Point Capital, one of investor of Tesla, attempt to recapitalize Tesla to align with Elon's business standpoints. All of these pushed Elon engineered a cooperation with NASA. Finally, not only had he settled these issues, but got Falcon 4 off the ground successfully.
Of course, there was no panacea for solving all challenges forever. Outside of SpaceX, with the American launch providers limited launch abilities, SpaceX competed with United Launch Alliance and Orbital Sciences Corporation for domestic military satellite and ISS resupply missions, respectively. Inside of SpaceX, Elon and his crews struggled to expand its launch capabilities
