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

他从始至终扮演了政府“祸根”。

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

对于左派一些人来说，真正祸根就是政府削减公共支出举动。

It may be a blessing or a curse.

可能是好事，也可能是祸根。

The decision to base it there has proved disastrous.

当初这个选址确是个祸根。

Water scarcity is the curse of some of the poorest regions on Earth, leaving developing countries increasingly unable to feed themselves, and causing hardship for millions of people.

缺水是地球上一些最贫穷地区祸根，使发展中国家越来越无法养活自己，并给数百万人带来困难。

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态度。他们地区政府表示，他们会继续努力，为将来对抗马德里政府埋下了祸根。

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各大祸根也难以服人。

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，这表达是同样意思。

God's grace in the heart will render the knowledge of the head a blessing; but without this, it may prove to us no better than a curse.

心中带着主恩宠，就会变成好事；事；可是，如果没有做，就和祸根一样了。

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

我生存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，我祸根不是战斗带来而是蠕动蠕虫。

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）所以剃须是我存在祸根。

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

英国高等教育中根深蒂固贵族传统是它祸根。

So one thing you wrote is, " has the discovery of caffeine by humans been a boon or bane to our civilization, and what about to our species, which might not be the same thing" ?

所以你写一件事是，“人类发现咖啡因对我们文明是福音还是祸根， 对我们物种又如何， 这可能不是一回事” ？

As a reward for shooting the sunbirds, the Chinese goddess Shi Wangmu gave Yi an elixir of immortality, but it proved to be his undoing.

作为射下太阳鸟奖赏，中国女神西王母赐予了后羿长生不老药，然而这却成了他祸根。

And Coolidge, of course, you highlight, you even went so far as to write that, quote, thriftiness is both a blessing and a curse.

当然，柯立芝你重点提了，甚至你还写道：“节俭既是福分，也是祸根。”

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，我欠他长期信任债务，我一直是他祸根和毁灭， 最终将得偿还。

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问题，但从智能手机云计算技术进步变成了祸根。

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

当巫师说你马将成为你生活祸根时，他会把那匹马送走。