Nasa's hope of filming a spectacular crash on the moon was dashed satellite and telescope imagery failed to record the enormous plume of rock and dust that scientists had predicted.

美国航天局（Nasa）拍摄到对月球的一次特别撞击的希望破灭。 卫星和太空望远镜没有拍摄到科学家所预测的巨大的由尘埃和碎片形成的羽状云。

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Hope of living behind a white picket fence was dashed with the mortgage crisis, but the dream is about much more than homeownership.

居住在白色篱栅环绕的别墅之中，乃是许多人的梦想，然而次贷危机使这个梦想成了镜花水月。

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But a Lyon penalty and Gardner's late intervention dashed any hope of a Warrington win and a second successive defeat for Saints.

BBC: St Helens 34-22 Warrington

Dinners at his house were a fraught mixture of desire and dashed hope as pedigreed bottles were opened and poured into glasses and down the kitchen sink.

WSJ: Does Good Wine Come to Those Who Wait? | On Wine by Lettie Teague

Any hope that Japan could contribute to a global upturn was dashed long before the latest government economic recovery plan, launched on February 27th.

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