This evil can be traced to Watergate.

祸根应该说是在水门时代埋下的。

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。

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

对于左派的一些来说，真正的祸根就是政府削减公共支出的举动。

It may be a blessing or a curse.

知识可能是好事，也可能是祸根。

The decision to base it there has proved disastrous.

当初这个选址的确是个祸根。

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，这达的是同样的意思。

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水。

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

现在死亡对我进行了打击，我的祸根不是战斗带来的而是蠕动的蠕虫。

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。

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

（ 雷声隆隆） （ 声音）所以剃须是我存在的祸根。

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。

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

这个房间真的是我存在的祸根不是我存在的脉络吗，祸根？

Yeah, the bane of our existence.

是啊，这简直是我们存在的祸根。

He has called me his bane!

他说我是他的祸根！

So there's this particular problem nuclide called cobalt 60, which is the kind of bane of all decommissioning.

因此， 存在一种特定的问题核素， 称为钴-60，它是所有退役工作中的祸根。

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，而我存在的祸根是对隐形眼镜用完的恐慌。

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，当然他们是这么多生活的祸根。

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这种做法，但光凭这一点就支持酿成今日危机的各大祸根也难以服。

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，低进入门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。

When the wizard says your horse is going to be the bane of your existence, he sends the horse away.

当巫师说你的马将成为你生活的祸根时，他会把那匹马送走。