THE week before last, a falcon was launched into space: Elon Musk's privately financed falcon 9 heavy-lifting rocket.

上上个星期，一枚猎鹰号运载火箭发射升空：伊隆麝香私人资助了猎鹰9号大推力运载火箭。

This will award $20m to the first privately financed team to land a robotic vehicle on the moon, travel 500 metres on the lunar surface, and send pictures and data from the enterprise back to Earth.

2000万美元的奖金将给予这第一支秘密筹措资金的团队，它将在月球上着落一个机器行驶工具，在月球表面行驶500米以及在返回地球后从公司发出照片与数据。

The L. A. Olympics were the first privately financed Games ever and made an unheardof2 profit of $215 million.

洛杉矶奥运会是有史以来第一届由私人赞助的奥运会，并创造了空前的2.15亿美元的赢利。