This evil can be traced to Watergate.

祸根应该说是在代埋下的。

The decision to base it there has proved disastrous.

当初个选址的确是个祸根。

He's cast himself throughout as the scourge of Washington establishment.

他从始至终扮演了政府“祸根”的角色。

It may be a blessing or a curse.

知识可能是好事，也可能是祸根。

For some on the left, the real villain was the government's public-spending cuts.

于左派的一些人来说，真正的祸根就是政府削减公共支出的举动。

We might also express this same meaning by saying something is a blessing and a curse.

我们还能说某件事既是幸事又是祸根，表达的是同样的意思。

This room has been truly the bane of my existence isn't vein of my existence, bane?

个房间真的是我存在的祸根不是我存在的脉络吗，祸根？

One of the banes of my existence is filling pots with water.

我生存的祸根之一就是往罐子里灌。

He has called me his bane!

他说我是他的祸根！

I don’t know about you, but mosquitoes are the bane of my digital existence.

我不了解你， 但蚊子是我数字生活的祸根。

The aristocratic tradition embedded in British higher education is its bane.

英国高等教育中根深蒂固的贵族传统是它的祸根。

(thunder rumbles) (voice screams) So shaving is a bane of my existence.

（ 雷声隆隆） （ 声音尖叫）所以剃须是我存在的祸根。

Now death deals its blow to me, My bane not battle-borne but a writhing worm.

现在我进行了打击，我的祸根不是战斗带来的而是蠕动的蠕虫。

A very, very interesting one, and of course they are the bane of so many peoples' lives.

一个非常非常有趣的人，当然他们是么多人生活的祸根。

I can't see well, and the bane of my existence is a panic about running out of contact lenses.

我视力不好，而我存在的祸根是隐形眼镜用完的恐慌。

Less scrupulous donors may undercut such an approach, but that is insufficient justification for propping up the structures that fostered the current crisis.

顾虑不那么多的捐助者可能会削弱种做法，但光凭一点就支持酿成今日危机的各大祸根也难以服人。

The second problem, low barriers to entry is another supposed boon, turned bane advances in technology from smartphones to cloud.

第二个问题，低进入槛是另一个被认为是好处的问题，但从智能手机到云计算技术的进步变成了祸根。

Our hospitals are short of cash. Add to that the long hours doctors work, and you have a recipe for disaster.

【add】我们医院资金短缺，再加上医生工作间长，些早晚都是祸根。

But the Catalans are defiant. Their regional government has said it’s going to press on regardless, setting the scene for future confrontation with Madrid.”

但是加泰罗尼亚则采取完全蔑视的态度。他们的地区政府表示，他们会继续努力，为将来抗马德里政府埋下了祸根。

But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.

但是，我欠他的长期信任债务，我一直是他的祸根和毁灭， 最终将得到偿还。