Some say that Kennedy conceived of the race to the moon principally to recover from the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs.

有人说肯尼迪登月计划的目的主要是想从猪湾事件的失败中走出来。

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In April of that year, the United States armed and directed a poorly planned invasion by Cuban exiles, which was easily defeated at the Bay of Pigs.

同年4月，美国武装并指导古巴流亡人士发动了一次筹划不当的入侵行动，并在古巴猪湾登陆时被轻易打败。

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In April, Kennedy allowed the CIA to move forward with a poorly planned invasion of Cuba, which resulted in humiliation at the hands of Fidel Castro: the Bay of Pigs.

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And the disasters are etched deep in the public (or at least journalistic) memory: the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, for example, or the Iran-contra affair in the 1980s.

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