告吹

Our research will certainly go by the board if the government doesn’t agree to continue financing it.

如果政府不同意继续提供资金，我们研究肯定要告吹。

After that I would often slip away to the little cottage by the mealie lands.

但她对我婚姻大事还是经常边。她常常一些怪怪，几乎像担心我婚事会告吹一样。