预言自己失去权力的权力大亨
In our long interview with him this week, featured in The Insider and our Business section, the engineer and entrepreneur sets out two paradoxes and one contradiction. The first paradox is that one of the world's most power-hungry tycoons is enthusiastically helping create a technology that he says will render him—and all other human beings—powerless after as little as five years. The second is that the world's richest man says he is preparing for a world of infinite abundance, where money, including his $750bn fortune, no longer matters. And the contradiction is that, despite these stated beliefs, Mr Musk continues to act as if they were not true.
本段带走：权力大亨预言人类失权，世界首富预言金钱失效，却继续按旧世界逻辑行动。
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本周，我们对他进行了一次长篇专访，内容刊载于《内幕》及本刊商业版块。这位工程师兼企业家在采访中提出了两个悖论和一个矛盾。第一个悖论是：这位全球最热衷于追逐权力的大亨之一，却在积极推动一项他自己认为将在短短五年内令他乃至全人类都丧失主导权的技术。第二个悖论是：这位全球首富声称自己正在为一个物质极度丰裕的世界做准备，在那个世界里，金钱将失去意义，包括他那高达7500亿美元的巨额财富。而矛盾之处在于，尽管持有上述信念，马斯克的实际行动却与之背道而驰，仿佛这一切从未是他真正相信的事。
本段重点词汇与表达
power-hungry
渴求权力的。
✨ 拓展/考点：与powerful不同，前者写欲望，后者写现实地位。这里故意让power-hungry与powerless相撞。
infinite abundance
无限丰裕。
✨ 拓展/考点：经济学讨论通常从稀缺出发，这个短语描绘资源近乎无限的反常世界。
本段长难句解析
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原句再现 The first paradox is that one of the world's most power-hungry tycoons is enthusiastically helping create a technology that he says will render him—and all other human beings—powerless after as little as five years.
结构拆解 主干是The first paradox is that...。表语从句中，主语为one of...tycoons；a technology后接定语从句，he says插在其中，真正谓语是will render。破折号把受影响者从马斯克扩展到全人类。
翻译点拨 中文先落“第一个悖论是”，再把长主语压成“这位……大亨之一”。after as little as five years强调最快只需五年，不能漏掉时间之短。
推荐译法 第一个悖论是：这位全球最热衷于追逐权力的大亨之一，却在积极推动一项他自己认为将在短短五年内令他乃至全人类都丧失主导权的技术。