马斯克收购推特

Elon Musk is taking Twitter’s “public square” private 

伊隆·马斯克将推特的“公共广场”私有化

take…private将…私有化；使…私有化

The billionaire promises to make online speech freer. That is harder than it sounds

这位亿万富翁承诺让网络言论更加自由。这比听起来要难

Elon musk, the world’s richest man, has described Twitter / as the “de facto public town square”. On April 25th / he struck a deal to take it private. Mr Musk, the boss of companies including / Tesla, a carmaker, / and SpaceX, a rocket firm, / put together an all-cash offer worth about $44bn, stumping up the bulk of the financing himself / in the form of $21bn in equity / and a $12.5bn loan against his shares in Tesla. It amounts to one of the largest buy-outs in history. If it is a big deal in business terms, it could be bigger still / in what it means for the future of online speech.

世界首富埃隆•马斯克将推特描述为“实际上的公共城市广场”。4月25日，他达成了一项协议(成交)，将其私有化。马斯克是包括汽车制造商特斯拉(Tesla)和火箭公司SpaceX在内的多家公司的老板，他提出了一份价值约440亿美元的全现金收购要约，以210亿美元的股权和125亿美元的贷款作为抵押，自己支付了大部分融资。这将是历史上最大的收购之一。如果从商业角度来说，这是一件大事，那么它对未来网络言论的意义可能更大。

Take it private,将其私有化

Mr Musk, the boss of companies including Tesla, a carmaker, and SpaceX, a rocket firm, put together an all-cash offer worth about $44bn, stumping up the bulk of the financing himself in the form of $21bn in equity and a $12.5bn loan against his shares in Tesla.

马斯克是包括汽车制造商特斯拉(Tesla)和火箭公司SpaceX在内的多家公司的老板，他提出了一份价值约440亿美元的全现金收购要约，以210亿美元的股权和125亿美元的贷款作为持有特斯拉股权的抵押，自己支付了大部分融资。

英文语序：主语+主要内容(谓语提出put together)+次要内容(自己支付stumping up himself)+方式方法(以贷款和抵押两种形式in the form of)

中文多个小短句，翻译为英文长句，看着中文，翻回英文

Twitter isn’t an obviously attractive business. With 217m daily users / it is an order of magnitude smaller / than Facebook, the world’s largest social network, / and has slipped well behind the likes / of Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. Its share price has bumped along for years. It is like a modern-day Craigslist, writes Benedict Evans, a tech analyst: “Coasting on network effects, building nothing much, and getting unbundled piece by piece.”

Twitter并不是一个很有吸引力的行业。它每天拥有2.17亿用户，比世界上最大的社交网络Facebook小一个数量级，并远远落后于Instagram、TikTok和Snapchat等公司。它的股价多年来一直起伏不定(颠簸而行)。科技分析师本尼迪克特•埃文斯(Benedict Evans)写道，它就像一个现代版的克雷格列表网站名:依靠网络效应，什么都不做，逐渐地分散开来。

an order of magnitude用于严肃专业话题

By 2030, when Volkswagen vows to have built six “gigafactories” capable of churning out 240 gigawatt-hours’ worth of batteries a year, Mr Musk says, with signature ballyhoo, that Tesla’s factories will be producing an order of magnitude more, or around 3,000 gigawatt-hours.（选自熊皮特专栏：特斯拉和大众的竞争）

到2030年，大众(Volkswagen)发誓要建造6座“千兆工厂”，年产能达到240千兆瓦时的电池。马斯克高调表示，特斯拉的工厂将再多生产一个数量级，即约3000千兆瓦时。