| 1. | Where does the blame for our failure lie ?
我们失败的症结在哪里？ |
| 2. | Maybe that is where the rub is .
问题的症结恐怕就在这里。 |
| 3. | They are the focus of political discontent and agitation .
他们是政治不满和骚乱的症结所在。 |
| 4. | This frustration is a potential source of social conflict .
这一症结是社会冲突的一个潜在根源。 |
| 5. | This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty .
这种白白浪费时间的习惯是问题的症结所在。 |
| 6. | He could never transcend his resentments and his complexes .
他从来不能把他的怨恨和感情上的症结置之度外。 |
| 7. | Personalities were not, however, the heart of china's domestic problem .
然而，个别的人物倒不是中国国内问题的症结所在。 |
| 8. | There was plenty of coal. the old workings could not get at it, that was all .
煤矿蕴藏相当丰富，但陈旧的作业面开采不到它，这便是问题的症结所在。 |
| 9. | I had traced the cause of the trouble . one of the links in the chain that drives the wheels had snapped .
我找到了毛病的症结所在：驱动轮的链条断了一环。 |
| 10. | The cunning counsellors praise thee, because thou has cut the knots in which they have tied their own souls .
老奸巨滑的大臣们赞颂你，因为你把束缚他们灵魂的症结快刀斩乱麻似地劈开了。 |
