the heel of Achilles
常見例句
- The goalkeeper is the heel of Achilles .
那守門員太弱是致命的缺陷。 - What will it be when the increase of yearly production is brought to a complete stop? Here is the vulnerable place, the heel of Achilles, for capitalistic production.
如果年增產(chǎn)量完全陷入停頓的話，情形亦將怎樣呢？這里正是資本主義生產(chǎn)的弱點，它的致命弱點。 - This is the Achilles heel of market economies.
這是市場經(jīng)濟(jì)的致命弱點。
www.pro-classic.com - He says their research has identified an "Achilles' heel" of the parasite - an enzyme that is needed for the parasite's survival.
- But Achilles, of course, he got him in the heel where he didn't have any armor.
但阿喀琉斯,是腳踵中箭,他也是沒有穿盔甲的
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(jié)選 - The weekend's unprecedented upheaval--culminating Sunday night in the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America--bared the Achilles heel of the industry: Brokers finance their daily operations using funding that is apt to disappear quickly and with little warning.
FORBES: Magazine Article - But then the price of the edible oils used in many of its products--the Achilles' heel of the food distribution business--started gyrating.
FORBES: Magazine Article - Separately, Bloomberg reports that the Maestro himself, Alan Greenspan, is so concerned about a sudden sharp increase in interest rates that every day he checks the rate of the 10-year note and 30-year bond calling them the critical Achilles heel of the economy.
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