美国探险家史蒂夫-福塞8月5日在澳大利亚西部的沙漠中启动了他的热气球，开始了他若干次只身驾驶热气球环游世界失败后的又一次尝试。

US adventurer Steve Fossett on Sunday launched his balloon from the Western Australian desert in another attempt to become the first to fly a balloon solo around the world.

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世界冠军们遭到一次戏剧性的失败

The world champions suffered a sensational defeat.

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我们可以选择把失败看作是“世界末日”。

We can choose to see failure as "the end of the world".

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It's about changing our interpretation of the world, of what's happening to us, of our achievements, of our failures.

要改变我们对世界的诠释，以及我们的遭遇，成就，失败。

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