Elon Musk may want a WeChat for the world

Elon Musk is taking inspiration from China’s top social media platform, WeChat, while planning a future for Twitter. And while he has shared very few details of his ambition for an app for everything, experts say it won’t be easy to achieve.

Elon Musk从中国顶级社交媒体平台微信中获取了灵感，同时也为推特规划着未来。虽然他几乎没有透露自己开发一款应用程序的细节，但专家表示他的雄心实现起来并不容易。

ambition：

英 [æmˈbɪʃn] 美 [æmˈbɪʃn]

雄心;野心;志向;抱负

The Tesla (TSLA) CEO said late Tuesday that he wanted to create a new app called “X” after buying Twitter.

这位特斯拉的CEO在周二透露，在收购完Twitter之后他想要制作一款名为X的APP。

“Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app,” he tweeted.

他在推特上写道：“购买推特是创建X（一应俱全app）的助推器。”

Musk’s comment came on the heels of news that he had once again reversed course and decided to follow through with his bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion, a price originally agreed back in April.

马斯克发表上述言论之前，有消息称他再次改变主意，决定以440亿美元收购Twitter，这个价格最初是在4月份商定的。

bid：

英 [bɪd] 美 [bɪd]

投标;出价

The acquisition would put the world’s richest man in charge of one of the most influential social networks around, after months of acrimony and bitter U-turns.

经过了数月的嘲讽和痛苦的180度转型，此次收购将让这位世界首富掌管世界上几家最具影响力的社交网络的其中之一。

acrimony：

英 [ˈækrɪməni] 美 [ˈækrɪmoʊni]

(态度、言辞)尖刻;讥讽

Now, Musk’s intention to build out what’s assumed to be a multipurpose platform has drawn comparisons to “super-apps” in Asia, essentially one-stop shops that do it all for users.

现在，马斯克打算建立一个被认为是多功能平台，描绘成和亚洲的“超级应用程序”作对比，基本上是一站式商店，为用户提供一切服务。

Several tech companies in the region have already succeeded with their own versions of such applications. Chief among them is WeChat, the platform that is owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent (TCEHY) and sometimes described as Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR), Snapchat (SNAP) and PayPal (PYPL) all rolled into one.

该地区的几家科技公司已经成功发布了此类应用程序的版本。其中最主要的是微信，这是一个由中国科技巨头腾讯拥有的平台，有时被称为Facebook、Twitter、Snapchat和PayPal的整合体。

More than a billion users, primarily in the Chinese Mainland, rely on the social network to do virtually everything — from ordering groceries to booking a yoga class to paying bills — without leaving the app.

超过10亿用户，其中主要是中国大陆的用户，几乎所有事情都依赖于社交网络，从订购杂货到预订瑜伽课程，再到支付账单，这一个APP就够了。

Elsewhere in Asia, people have also flocked to apps such as Grab (GRAB) in Singapore and Malaysia, or Line in Japan. Grab was initially best known as a ride-hailing service provider, while Line gained popularity as a messaging app, and both have since branched out significantly to offer other features.

在亚洲其他地区，人们也大量使用诸如新加坡和马来西亚的Grab或日本的Line等应用程序。Grab最初出名是作为一个出行服务提供商，而Line则作为一个消息应用程序而广受欢迎，此后两者都大力扩展，提供了其他功能。

flock：

英 [flɒk] 美 [flɑːk]

一大群;蜂拥;聚集

Musk has not been shy about his desire to emulate the success of WeChat. In June, at a town hall with Twitter employees, he compared the American company’s potential to that of Tencent’s ubiquitous service in China.

马斯克对于想要模仿微信的成功案例并不害羞。6月份，在一个大量推特员工到场的市政厅，他将这家美国公司的潜力与腾讯在中国无处不在的服务进行了对比。

emulate：

英 [ˈemjuleɪt] 美 [ˈemjuleɪt]

效仿;模仿

ubiquitous：

英 [juːˈbɪkwɪtəs] 美 [juːˈbɪkwɪtəs]

无处不在

“I think an important goal for Twitter would be to try to include as much of the country, as much of the world, as possible,” said the billionaire businessman. “You basically live on WeChat in China because it’s so usable and helpful to daily life, and I think if we can achieve that, or even get close to that at Twitter, it would be an immense success.”

这位亿万富翁说：“我认为推特的一个重要目标是尽可能地覆盖美国和世界的大部分地区。在中国你基本上可以在微信上生活，因为微信对日常生活非常有帮助。我认为如果我们能做到这一点，甚至在推特上接近这一点的话，都将是一个巨大的成功。”

Musk isn’t the only prominent US tech leader taking cues from China: Previously, Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg also suggested that WeChat should be a case study for his company.

马斯克并不是唯一一位接受中国暗示的美国著名科技领袖：此前Facebook CEO 马克·扎克伯格也建议，微信应该成为他的公司的一个案例研究。

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