Failure to Launch

The Americans, who had disliked Tu ever since his failure to launch an attack in Burma in accordance with American orders, sided with Sun and tried to get Tu relieved.

当年在缅甸作战的时候，杜未按照美国人的命令发动进攻，所以美国人就一直不喜欢他。他们给孙撑腰，想方设法要把杜搞掉。

The original CryoSat had been lost in 2005, when a rocket failure caused the satellite to crash into the sea during launch.

之前的CryoSat卫星在2005年发射失败，由于当时发射活动中发射火箭的问题而导致卫星坠入海中。

Following some relief in Washington that Pyongyang's missile launch proved a failure, the threat to abandon the talks presents a formidable challenge to Obama.

平壤导弹发射被证实失败后，华盛顿方面多少有些宽慰，然而，随之而来的放弃会谈的威胁，却是献给奥巴马的一个难以应对的挑战。