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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
It has been the most tumultuous couple weeks in, you know, billionaire drama here in Silicon1 Valley.
这是硅谷亿万富翁闹剧中最动荡的几周。
Nitasha Tiku is a tech reporter for The Post, and she's been covering this whirlwind of events as Elon Musk2 tries to seize control of Twitter.
尼塔莎·提库是《华盛顿邮报》的科技记者，她一直在报道埃隆·马斯克试图掌权推特(Twitter)的一系列事件。
This all started on April 4th, when Elon Musk took a 9% stake in Twitter, becoming the company's largest shareholder3.
这一切始于4月4日，当时埃隆·马斯克持有推特 9%的股份，成为该公司最大的股东。
All right. Like him or not, it's impossible to ignore him.
好吧。不管你喜不喜欢他，你都不可能忽视他。
Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is now the single biggest shareholder of Twitter.
埃隆·马斯克是世界上最富有的人，现在是推特的唯一最大股东。
That makes him a 9.2% owner of Twitter, to be very precise here.
准确地说，他拥有推特 9.2%的股份。
It also makes him the single biggest shareholder of the company, even bigger than some of the biggest mutual-fund and exchange-traded fund investors4 in Twitter.
这也使他成为推特唯一的最大股东，甚至比推特最大的共同基金和交易所买卖基金投资者的持股占比还要大。
Twitter stock is soaring right now on this breaking news.
这条爆炸性新闻让推特的股价飙升。
And you have to wonder whether Elon Musk's influence on Twitter will actually change the company in any way.
你不得不惊叹是否埃隆·马斯克对推特的影响真的会以某种方式改变这家公司。
What happened next is, Twitter invited him to join the board, which would have put a cap on the amount of shares that he is able to own.
接下来发生的是，推特邀请他加入董事会，这将为他能够拥有的股份数量设定上限。
And so it seemed like, you know, it was veering5 towards a unpredictable but sort of sensible end.
所以看起来，这转向了一个不可预测但有点合理的结局。
But then, later that same week, Musk declined the board invitation.
但就在同一周的晚些时候，马斯克拒绝了董事会的邀请。
And all of a sudden, you know, the roller coaster is back on.
突然之间，过山车又回来了。
And then, this past Thursday, Elon Musk sends out this tweet.
上周四，埃隆·马斯克发了一条推特。
He says he is going to try to buy Twitter and take the company private.
他表示，他将试图收购推特，并将该公司私有化。
And Elon tweets out a link to an FCC filing that says, very curtly6, "I made an offer,"
埃隆在推特上发布了一个FCC文件的链接，上面简短地写道:“我提出了收购要约。”
and that's how he let the world know that he had launched a hostile takeover bid to buy Twitter for roughly $43 billion, or $54.20 a share.
他就是这样让全世界知道，他已经发起了恶意收购，以大约430亿美元(约合每股54.2美元)的价格收购推特。
Loyal Elon acolytes7 will note that he got his happy little 420 number in there, a reference to weed, which now many business reporters have had to say publicly.
埃隆的忠实粉丝会注意到，在这里他用到了快乐数字420，这个数字指的是大麻，现在许多商业记者不得不公开这么说。
Thanks, Elon.
谢谢,埃伦。
From the newsroom of The Washington Post, this is "Post Reports."
这里是《华盛顿邮报》编辑部的《邮报报道》。
Today, we break down exactly what is going on with Elon Musk and Twitter.
今天，我们来分析一下埃隆·马斯克和推特到底发生了什么。
And we talk about what's at stake here for Twitter employees, for Twitter users, and for our democracy.
我们谈论的是推特员工、推特用户以及我们的民主在这里的利害关系。
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musk
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shareholder
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