Horton's Achilles heel was that he could not delegate.
霍顿的致命弱点是他不肯放权。
Achilles Heel: Sidney hates phones, surely.
弱点：西德妮讨厌电话。
Beckham's Achilles' heel, it turns out, was his Achilles heel.
小贝的脚踵，一如阿基里斯的脚踵，成为了这个男人的致命伤。
These are IMs and emails for me, but we all have our Achilles heel.
每个人都有弱点，对我来说是即时通信工具和邮件。
The club’s Achilles heel is Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country.
非洲人口第一大国尼日利亚是西共体唯一的死穴。
The club's Achilles heel is Nigeria, Africa's most populous country.
非洲人口第一大国尼日利亚是西共体唯一的死穴。
Client anonymity is Gleis' core responsibility but it is also the series' Achilles heel.
客户匿名是格雷斯的核心责任，也是这个系列的致命要害。
Unemployment, at an unacceptable 15% in 2003-04, remains the economy"s Achilles heel.
失业率在2003-2004年面临十分不理想的水平―15%，停留在经济的“阿基里斯之踵（Achilles heel）”上。
The Achilles heel of this team has been the tendency for the role players to disappear during games.
在比赛期间，这支球队的弱点，已经趋向于角色球员不在场上。
Ever since London was awarded the Games in 2005, transport has been considered a potential Achilles heel.
自伦敦在2005年获得奥运会申办权起，交通就已被公认为是伦敦潜在的软肋。
We will need to ensure that those same technological innovations that provide advantage do not become our Achilles heel.
我们要保证带给我们进步的那些科技发明不会成为阿基里斯之踵。
Achilles Heel: John just loves to be the hero, meaning he could be easily tempted into a potentially fatal dangerous situation.
弱点：约翰就是爱逞英雄，这就是说他很容易诱入潜在且致命的危险之中。
Achilles Heel: Lara’s a total thrillseeker, and her lack of reserve when it comes to death-defying stunts could be the end of her.
弱点 ：劳拉是整个一个大无畏，缺少三思后行的思考能力，当视死如归的场面出现，劳拉可能就终结了。
They have deftly played the role of saviour just when Western Banks have been exposed as the Achilles heel of the global financial system.
当西方银行，这国际金融系统的大力神把阿基里斯脚跟暴露出来时，这些主权财富基金灵巧的扮演了救世主的角色。
A lone, dedicated machine providing some crucial service-say, DNS or centralized authentication-is an Achilles heel and warrants a bullpen for backup.
如果一台单独的专用机器提供某种关键服务，比如dns或集中的身份验证，它就是致命的弱点，必须为它提供充足的备用硬件。
Achilles Heel: Tell him you're going to teach him kung-fu, plug a laptop into his brain and load Hottie Or the Nottie into the DVD drive. He'll kill himself.
弱点：告诉你要教他功夫，然后把手提电脑接在他脑袋上，下载些辣妹或是丑女之类的东西到他的DVD驱动上，他准会杀了他自己。
Achilles Heel: her mother, whom Sadako protected against vicious reporters. Or, dig out your VHS player and record the latest episode of Eastenders over her.
弱点：贞子她妈，反对怪咖记者或是挖出你的家用录相机，记录下最新的东城故事。
Achilles Heel: She really hates those aliens, meaning Ripley could be lured into all kinds of traps if she thought there was a xenomorph in need of exploding.
弱点：她太讨厌那些外星人了，这意味着瑞普利会被诱入所有的圈套，只要她觉得有必要引爆异形时。
The Achilles heel of the Semantic Web may well be the complete disinterest of most authors in producing anything remotely approximating metadata for their pages.
语义web的要害可能在于多数作者对为其网页生成与元数据相去甚远的内容毫无兴趣。
"This study reveals the identity of a novel protein trafficking apparatus... and hence, provides an 'Achilles heel' for anti-malaria drug developers," they wrote.
专家们在文中写道：这项研究揭示了一种新型蛋白转运装置的属性，因此为抗疟药物研发者提供了一个新的靶点。
Arrogant people always have an Achilles heel, but this they do not want exposed or known by people. Thus they use an invincible front to protect their vulnerabilities.
傲慢自大的人总是有一个致命的弱点，但是他们不想暴露，不想被人知道。因此他们使用坚不可摧的面具来保护自己的弱点。
Achilles Heel: Like any mother, the Bride would do anything for her daughter - faced with taking her own life or her daughters, we're pretty sure she'd choose the former.
弱点：与所有的母亲一样，鬼娃新娘愿意为自己的女儿付出一切—在面临送上自己的性命还是送上女儿的命这一选择的时候，我们可以肯定，她会选择前者。
Achilles Heel: Tang's really a bit of a soft touch, so appealing to his gentle nature and befriending him first would get you close enough to slip some poison into his food.
弱点：唐龙真的很心软，于是呼吁他的温柔的天性及一开始帮助他，就可以接近他往他的食物里下毒了。
The alacrity with which Ronald Reagan scuttled from Lebanon after the marine barracks bombing in 1983 confirmed this belief that America's aversion to casualties was the superpower's Achilles heel.
罗难得•里根侥幸在1983年军营爆炸后匆匆忙忙逃离黎巴嫩声称有一种说法：厌恶战争伤亡是美国这个超级大国的阿基里斯之踵。
Oceanides Thetis, Achilles' mother, grasped his heel to soak him in the Styx River after he was born.
阿克琉斯出生后，他的母亲海洋女神西蒂斯握着他的脚跟在冥河里浸泡。
The hidden Achilles' heel is that while we've found ways to educate scientists in the humanities, the reverse has never really happened.
监管的阿基里斯之踵，消磨着我们，我们可以找到去让科学家去学习人文的方法，相反我们则没有做到。
The hidden Achilles' heel is that while we've found ways to educate scientists in the humanities, the reverse has never really happened.
监管的阿基里斯之踵，消磨着我们，我们可以找到去让科学家去学习人文的方法，相反我们则没有做到。
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