三十一岁时，埃隆手里拿着一张面额一亿八千万美元的支票。

At thirty-one, Elon held a check for one hundred eighty million dollars.

相反，埃隆将一亿美元投入了一家火箭初创公司。

Instead, Elon invested one hundred million dollars into a rocket venture.

随后他又将另外的七千万美元注入了一家陷入困境的电动汽车初创公司。

He poured another seventy million dollars into a struggling electric car startup.

朋友们为了让他改变主意，给他发来火箭爆炸的视频。

Friends sent him videos of rockets exploding to change his mind.

埃隆回答道：“如果一件事情足够重要，你仍然要去尝试。”

Elon replied, 'If something is important enough, you still try.'

那笔钱还没到手，他就已经飞去莫斯科买火箭了。

Even before that money came, he had already flown to Moscow to buy rockets.