A $4.3bn space telescope that Donald Trump tried to kill has lifted off from Florida as Nasa embarks on the next stage of its quest to unlock the secrets of the universe.(特朗普曾试图扼杀的一台43亿美元太空望远镜已从佛罗里达升空，NASA由此开启探索宇宙的新阶段。)
一台耗资43亿美元、唐纳德·特朗普曾试图扼杀的太空望远镜已从佛罗里达升空，美国宇航局由此开启探索宇宙奥秘征程的新阶段。
The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope survive(幸存，挺过)d two rounds of proposed White House budget cuts(预算削减), and began a million-mile journey into deep space from a launchpad(发射台) at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday morning. .
南希·格雷斯·罗曼太空望远镜挺过了两轮白宫提出的预算削减，于周日上午从肯尼迪航天中心的发射台开始了百万英里的深空之旅。
Sunday’s launch marked “an endpoint(终点，端点) for the engineers, but it’s a starting point(起点，出发点) for the scientists,” Julie McEnery, the telescope’s senior project scientist, told reporters, including Reuters, at a post-launch(发射后的) news conference.
周日的发射标志着“工程师们的终点，但却是科学家们的起点，”该望远镜的高级项目科学家朱莉·麦克纳里在发射后的新闻发布会上对包括路透社在内的记者说。