1. He had travelled only seven miles across the Channel when his engine failed and he was forced to land on the sea.
    但他只在海峡上空飞行7英里，引擎就发生了故障，他只好降落在海面上。

2. His engine failed and he landed on the sea for the second time.
    因引擎故障第二次降落在海面上。

3. However, all my devices to get it into the water failed, though they cost me infinite labour.
    然而，使它下水的所有计划都失败了。尽管为此我付出了巨大的努力。

4. He had helped me lift the veil that grows so quickly over our eyes in this busy world, to see a whole new realm I'd failed to appreciate before.
    在这忙碌的世界里，一层快速形成的面纱遮住了我们的双眼，是他帮我揭开了这层面纱，见到了一个以前从未好好欣赏的崭新世界。

5. And even though I was hopeful throughout the dinner that my mother would somehow see Rich's kindness, his sense of humor and charm, I knew he had failed miserably in her eyes.
    虽然吃饭时, 我一直希望我妈妈能从某种角度看到里奇的善良、幽默感和魅力，但是我知道在她的眼里里奇是一败塗地了。

6. An immediate search over 100,000 square miles of sea failed to turn up a single piece of the missing plane.
    随后立即展开了范围宽达100,000平方英里的海面搜索，但没有发现一片失踪飞机的残骸。

7. She had told him to come straight in if ever she failed to open the door and to leave the bread on the kitchen table.
    她曾告诉过面包师，如果她不去开门，他可直接进门，把面包放在厨房的桌上。

8. Six times she tried to reach the opposite wall to fix her thread, and six times she failed.
    它六次试图把吐出的丝接到对面的墙上，六次都失败了。

9. Soapy had failed again.
    苏比又失败了。

10. Seventy-two search planes, plus dozens of ships, failed to turn up any sign of the missing aircraft.
    72架搜索飞机加上几十艘船，都没能找到失踪飞机的任何踪影。