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Elon Musk fathered two children in 2021 with Shivon Zilis, a topexecutiveat his artificial intelligence company Neuralink, new court documents show.
新的法庭文件显示，埃隆·马斯克在2021年与他的人工智能公司Neuralink的高管希冯·齐里斯（Shivon Zilis）育有两个孩子。

The world’s wealthiest man now has nine known children, including five children with his first wife, Justine Musk, and two with the singer Claire Boucher, known professionally as Grimes.

这位世界上最富有的人现在有九个已知的孩子，包括与他的第一任妻子贾斯汀·马斯克的五个孩子，以及与歌手克莱尔·鲍彻（业内名为格莱姆斯）的两个孩子。

Court documents obtained by Insider and published on Wednesday showed that Elon Musk and Zilis filed apetitionto change their twin babies’ names to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name”.

商业内幕网获得并于周三公布的法庭文件显示，埃隆·马斯克和齐里斯提出申请，要求将他们的双胞胎婴儿的名字改为“随父姓，并将母亲的姓氏作为中间名的一部分”。

The petition was filed in Austin, Texas, where the babies were born, and was approved by the judge. Zilis reportedly gave birth in November 2021, weeks before Musk and Boucher had their second child via asurrogate.

这份请愿书是在婴儿出生地德克萨斯州奥斯汀市提交的，并得到了法官的批准。据报道，齐里斯于2021年11月生下孩子，是在马斯克和鲍彻通过代孕生下第二个孩子的几周前。

Zilis, 36, was born in Canada and studied economics and philosophy at Yale before working at IBM and later at Bloomberg Beta, aventurecapital fund. She is considered a rising star in the world of artificial intelligence and has been listed on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in and LinkedIn’s 35 Under 35.

36岁的齐里斯出生于加拿大，在耶鲁大学学习经济学和哲学，然后在IBM工作，后来在风险投资基金Bloomberg Beta工作。她被认为是人工智能领域的一颗新星，并被列入《福布斯》“30位30岁以下精英”和领英“35位35岁以下精英”名单之中。

According to her LinkedIn, Zilis works as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, Musk’s neurotechnology firm, which seeks to create human-machine interfaces. She began working at the company in May 2017.

根据她的领英信息，齐里斯在马斯克的神经技术公司Neuralink担任运营和特别项目总监，该公司旨在创造脑机接口。她于2017年5月开始在该公司工作。

In 2022, animal rights organizations filed a complaint with the US Department of Agriculture over animal abuse charges related to the monkeys used in Neuralink experiments. Neuralink called the claims “misleading”.

2022年，动物权利组织就与Neuralink实验中使用的猴子有关的虐待动物指控向美国农业部提出申诉。Neuralink则称这些指控具有“误导性”。

Muskhelmsseveral companies including Neuralink, the electric car company Tesla, the space travel company SpaceX, and the tunnel construction firm the Boring Company. He recently agreed to buy Twitter for $44bn, a purchase that he has stalled over concerns about bots on the platform. According to Insider, Zilis has “been floated” to run the social media site should the deal go through.

马斯克掌舵的公司包括Neuralink、电动汽车公司特斯拉、太空旅行公司SpaceX和隧道建设公司The Boring Company。他最近同意以440亿美元的价格收购推特，但由于担心平台上的机器人，这一收购暂被搁置。据商业内幕网报道，如果马斯克与推特的交易成功，齐里斯会“被提名”经营这家社交媒体网站。

Musk in the past has promoted increasing the birth rate, saying “civilization is going to crumble” if people don’t have more children. “I mean, I’m doing my part haha,” he recently wrote on Twitter regarding the declining US birth rate.

马斯克过去曾提倡提高出生率，说如果人们不多生孩子，“文明就会崩溃”。他最近在推特上就美国出生率下降问题写道：“我的意思是，我正在完成我那部分，哈哈。”

Key points：

1.executive /ɪɡˈzekjətɪv/ adj. / n, 行政的，有执行权的；主管，经理；行政部门，执行委员会

The heroine is a senior TV executive.

女主人公是一位电视台高级主管。

2.petition /pəˈtɪʃn/ n. / v. 请愿书；申诉书，申请书；请愿，祈求，祈祷

Jill volunteered to organize a petition.

吉尔自告奋勇组织请愿。

3. surrogate /ˈsɜːrəɡət/ adj. / n. / v. 替代的，代理的；代理人，替代者；代孕母亲；取代，替代；指定（某人）为自己的代理人

She has agreed to act as a surrogate mother for her sister.

她已经同意为她姐姐代孕。

4. venture /ˈventʃər/ n. / v. 风险项目，冒险事业；冒险旅行，冒险行动；敢于去（未知或危险等地方）；冒险；小心地说，谨慎地做；敢说，大胆表示