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1Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire
Host: Let's start, though, with Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire after his company SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq stock market in New York. Shares closed almost 20% above their initial offer price, valuing the rocket, satellite and AI firm at more than $2 trillion.
Mr Musk said his ambition was to take people to the moon, to Mars and beyond. Shares were priced at $135 each. By the closing bell, they were changing hands at $160.
Here's how the BBC's partner station CBS covered the opening bell on the Nasdaq as the biggest IPO in stock market history was launched.
CBS: If the opening bell sounds a little different today, that is because we wanted to bring you to the floor of the Nasdaq, where SpaceX executives are ringing in today's trading. They're celebrating the launch of their highly anticipated historic IPO.
Host: Well, speaking from the SpaceX HQ in Texas, Elon Musk talked about his motivations for launching the company.
Musk: If there's not a new company that enters space, we will never be a truly spacefaring civilization.
You know, while the other aerospace companies, they build good rockets and everything, they were simply not pursuing the technology that's necessary to make life multi-planetary, to make Star Trek, to make the exciting science fiction futures that we've read about real. And that's what SpaceX is all about.
词汇表
trillionaire [trɪˈljɒneə(r)] n. 万亿富翁，拥有万亿资产的人
SpaceX n. 美国太空探索技术公司（Space Exploration Technologies Corp.）
debut [ˈdeɪbjuː] n./vi. 上市，首次亮相，初次登场
Nasdaq [ˈnæzdæk] n. 纳斯达克（美国主要股票交易所之一）
stock market 股票市场，证券市场
share n. 股份，股票
initial offer price 首次发行价，发行价
closing bell 收盘钟，收盘铃（股市交易日结束的信号）
change hands （股票等）易手，转手，被买卖
opening bell 开盘钟，开盘铃（股市交易日开始的信号）
IPO 首次公开募股，首次公开发行（Initial Public Offering）
highly anticipated [ænˈtɪsɪpeɪtɪd] 备受期待的，万众瞩目的
spacefaring civilization [ˈspeɪsfeərɪŋ] 太空文明（能够进行太空旅行的文明）
aerospace companies [ˈeərəʊspeɪs] 航空航天公司
multi-planetary [ˌmʌltiˈplænɪtəri] adj. 多行星的，跨行星的
Star Trek [trek] 《星际迷航》（美国科幻影视系列）
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