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inchoate「初期的；不成熟的」
Word of the Day : September 22, 2021
inchoate
初期的；不成熟的
adjective in-KOH-ut
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What It Means
Inchoate means “imperfectly formed or formulated.”
Inchoate意思是不完美的形态或不完整的设置。
Examples
In the podcast，作者描述了她在拍摄初期的一系列小插曲并将它们塑造成她的畅销小说的过程。
“Petrifying sights and sounds haunt her nights and inchoate shadows hover around her.” — Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021
“可怕的景象和可怕的声音萦绕在她的晚上，不清晰的影像在她周围盘旋。”
Did You Know?
Inchoate comes from inchoare, which means “to start work on” in Latin but translates literally as “to hitch up” (inchoare combines the prefix in- with the Latin noun cohum, which refers to the strap that secures a plow beam to a draft animal’s yoke). The concept of this initial step toward the larger task of plowing a field explains how inchoate came to describe something (as a plan or idea) in its early, not fully formed, stages of development.
Inchoate 来自 inchoare，在拉丁语中的意思是“to start work on『开始工作』”，但字面意思是“to hitch up『(把马等)拴在(车上)』”（inchoare 将前缀 in- 与拉丁语名词 cohum 结合在一起，后者指的是将犁辕固定到动物轭把上的带子）。这个迈向耕地这一更大任务第一步的概念，解释了inchoate是如何来描述发展初期、未完成阶段的事物(作为计划或想法)。
Quiz
Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of inchoate: n _ _ c _ nt.
他是新晋世界首富，低调不爱炫耀，却爱上洗碗，人称宠妻狂魔
2018年，世界首富换人啦！没错，就是亚马逊创始人杰夫贝索斯。
亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝佐斯超越了微软创始人比尔·盖茨，名副其实地成为世界上最富有的人。他第一次在福布斯亿万富翁排行榜上位列榜首。
来了解一下这位低调的2018新世界首富、亚马逊CEO杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）。
成长之路
贝佐斯出生时，父亲母亲分别只有18、16岁。生父经常酗酒，母亲后来改嫁了一位古巴移民，继父十分支持贝佐斯，两人的感情一直很好。
是否是这种不寻常的成长环境让他集创业者的智慧、抱负和不懈努力以证明自己的品质于一身，我们不得而知。
贝佐斯与母亲感情深厚，他曾在推特发文说：我能拥有一个这样的妈妈是何等的幸运。
能拥有这样的妈妈我觉得很幸运。妈妈，谢谢你给我的一切。
贝佐斯从小就表现出非凡的创造力。14岁时立志成为一名物理学家或宇航员，家里的车库满是他搞的小发明，有真空吸尘器做成的水翼船，还有雨伞加工出的太阳能灶具。16岁时，他就能安装风车，使用弧焊机。
大学时，他就读于普林斯顿（Princeton University），主修计算机专业，毕业后在科技公司工作了2年，之后进入华尔街一家银行信托公司。
从0到商业帝国
从网上书店到电商巨头
贝佐斯在华尔街的金融事业蒸蒸日上，但他却以不寻常的敏锐眼光瞄到了新的商机——电子商务。
创业的火苗在心中点燃后，他毅然辞去华尔街的工作，与妻子一同来到西雅图。在车库里，创建了美国第一家网络零售公司亚马逊。
他说假如自己80岁的时候，回望人生，不会因为离开了华尔街而后悔，但是却会因为没有抓住互联网的发展机会而抱憾。
虽然亚马逊建立之初只是一个网上书店，但在贝佐斯的设想中，亚马逊的业务“不仅限于卖书”。在建立初期 ，公众对它持有一些抵触情绪，他们认为这只是为了卖书而建立的，但是，贝佐斯争辩说亚马逊是一个致力于为顾客提供简化的在线交易的科技公司。
从网上书店到电商巨头，贝佐斯带着“亚马逊”这头大象在发展的道路上昂首阔步。
就是这个当初不被看好的企业，股价不断创新高，目前股价已达到了1500多美元，市值则超过7500亿美元。
亚马逊的工作环境也是让人超级羡慕，大概就是传说中别人家的办公室吧……
他们在西雅图的市中心建了三个球，叫做Amazon Spheres，外表看上去超酷，内部简直是如假包换的亚马逊热带雨林。
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不光搞电商，贝佐斯还买了《华盛顿邮报》。
在2013年5月，贝佐斯以2亿5千万美元现金买下了《华盛顿邮报》。他对记者说，“这对我来说还是个未知的领域，还需要探索实验。”
买下了《华盛顿邮报》之后，贝佐斯当然要抓住机会，为自家的大生意——亚马逊打打广告啦。美国总统特朗普还曾发推吐槽过。
蓝色能源（Blue Origin）：贝佐斯的太空梦
贝佐斯的太空梦可以追溯到1969年阿波罗号成功登月，从那时起，年仅5岁的贝佐斯探索太空的热情就开始被点燃了。
2000年蓝色能源成立，贝佐斯谈到创建该公司的意义时如是说：
本公司致力于开发私人上太空的技术，并尽可能地大幅度降低成本，提高可靠性。
2017年12月12日，蓝色能源的太空旅行车New Shepard 3 成功发射并返回。
贝佐斯发推庆祝：
作为《星际迷航》的骨灰级粉丝，2016年，在贝佐斯多次央求下，导演林诣彬终于在《星际迷航3：超越星辰》中给他安排了一个小角色。
不过你要是没认出来也不是你的错，因为贝佐斯（右）在剧中的角色是这样的……
宠妻狂魔
1992年，贝佐斯和妻子麦肯齐（MacKenzie）相识于D.E. Shaw投资管理公司，彼时贝佐斯是副总裁，而麦肯齐是来应聘助理研究员岗位的。
而杰夫是公司里第一个面试这位普林斯顿学妹的人。
麦肯齐和贝佐斯一样，是普林斯顿大学毕业的高材生。她充满智慧与魅力。
贝佐斯说自己被她的聪明才智深深吸引着：
我喜欢足智多谋的女人。我希望找到一个可以把我从第三世界监狱里营救出去的女人。
贝佐斯喜欢大笑，他爽朗的笑声让自己的小学妹感到心动。
在接受Vogue采访时，麦肯齐坦言道：
我就坐在他隔壁办公室，每天听着他爽朗的笑声，怎能不为那笑声所倾倒呢？
二人相识相恋的过程也是相当有速度，3个月坠入爱河，6个月后结婚，彼此认定对方就是未来想要携手一生的人。
他们夫妻二人性格截然不同，但感情却越来越好。麦肯齐说幸福生活的秘诀或许就是互补的性格：
他喜欢会见朋友，喜欢社交。而鸡尾酒聚会却会使我精神崩溃，仓促的会话、拥挤的人群，这确实不是我的菜。
麦肯齐喜欢写小说，贝佐斯是她的头号粉丝，也是她小说的第一位读者。
麦肯齐说，她的丈夫是自己的“最好读者”。
在麦肯齐写作第一本小说的时候，贝佐斯经常撇开其他计划，仔细阅读妻子的小说。
麦肯齐写第二本小说《陷阱》的时候，决定等她完全写完后再和丈夫分享。
她说：“我越快写完，就能越快和他讨论这些占据我大量大脑空间的角色。”
1994年贝佐斯决定辞职创业时，妻子毫不犹豫地陪他搬到了西雅图。二人租了一间只有一个卧室的房子，开始了创业之路。
她说，能感受到丈夫在说到创业时的激情。
麦肯齐说，自己不是做生意的料，但是她能听到丈夫谈及创业时声音里充满的激情。
如今，二人坐拥商业帝国，但生活与普通人家别无二致。
贝佐斯一家的早晨从一顿健康的早餐开始，为了花更多的时间陪伴家人，贝佐斯从来不会在早上安排任何会议。
麦肯齐会亲自送孩子上下学，二人会为孩子们安排丰富的假期生活。
直到2013年，麦肯齐都会开着本田车载着四个孩子去上学，然后把贝佐斯送去上班。他们的朋友Danny Hills说，贝佐斯一家“是如此平常、密不可分，简直太不寻常了。”
两人的育儿观念也非常有个性，他们不是把孩子严严实实保护起来，而是放手让孩子在经验教训中成长。
贝佐斯说他和妻子让孩子们4岁开始就使用刀，很快就让他们“拿起电动工具”，因为只有在受伤中才能成长。
贝佐斯很欣赏妻子的一句话：
我宁愿要一个只有9个指头的孩子，也不希望他们成为遇到事情就束手无策的人。
结婚多年，二人琴瑟和鸣，撒起狗粮来一点都不比小年轻差！
贝佐斯经常给妻子买漂亮衣服，给对方送上小惊喜。
二人特别合拍，贝佐斯经常会抽空给妻子买衣服。
“有时候，我会打电话问她，‘你的什么什么是什么码呀？’她会问‘干嘛呀？’我会说‘你别管。’这让她很开心。”
此外，贝佐斯还承包了洗碗工作，是个不折不扣的宠妻狂魔。
这位亚马逊CEO曾说，自己会用妻子很欣赏的方式结束一天：洗碗。
他说，“我很确定，这是我做的最性感的事儿。”
2010年，贝佐斯作为校友代表，受邀在普林斯顿毕业典礼上做演讲。
他演讲的主旨是：选择成就了我们（We Are What We Choose）。
他说：聪明是一种天赋，而善良则是一种选择。
最终，是选择而非聪明塑造了我们的人生。
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As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially “Days of our Lives.” My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. And every few summers, we’d join the caravan. We’d hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather’s car, and off we’d go, in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips. On one particular trip, I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the smell.
At that age, I’d take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I’d calculate our gas mileage — figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I’d been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can’t remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I’d come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, “At two minutes per puff, you’ve taken nine years off your life!”
I have a vivid memory of what happened, and it was not what I expected. I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. “Jeff, you’re so smart. You had to have made some tricky estimates, figure out the number of minutes in a year and do some division.” That’s not what happened. Instead, my grandmother burst into tears. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. While my grandmother sat crying, my grandfather, who had been driving in silence, pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. He got out of the car and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow. Was I in trouble? My grandfather was a highly intelligent, quiet man. He had never said a harsh word to me, and maybe this was to be the first time? Or maybe he would ask that I get back in the car and apologize to my grandmother. I had no experience in this realm with my grandparents and no way to gauge what the consequences might be. We stopped beside the trailer. My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, “Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.”
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
This is a group with many gifts. I’m sure one of your gifts is the gift of a smart and capable brain. I’m confident that’s the case because admission is competitive and if there weren’t some signs that you’re clever, the dean of admission wouldn’t have let you in.
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans — plodding as we are — will astonish ourselves. We’ll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom, we’ll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we’ve synthesized life. In the coming years, we’ll not only synthesize it, but we’ll engineer it to specifications. I believe you’ll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton — all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
How will you use these gifts? And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles — something that simply couldn’t exist in the physical world — was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most startups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker that didn’t work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil, baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice.
Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life — the life you author from scratch on your own — begins.
How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?
Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?
Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?
Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?
Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?
Will you bluff it out when you’re wrong, or will you apologize?
Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?
Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?
When it’s tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?
Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
I will hazard a prediction. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story. Thank you and good luck!
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