Achilles heel

noun

1. 致命弱点；致命的缺陷
   a weak point or fault in sb's character, which can be attacked by other people

1. N-SING 阿喀琉斯的脚踵；致命弱点
   Someone's Achilles heel is the weakest point in their character or nature, where it is easiest for other people to attack or criticize them.
   1. Horton's Achilles heel was that he could not delegate.
      霍顿的软肋在于他不懂得放权。

1. Horton's Achilles heel was that he could not delegate.
   霍顿的软肋在于他不懂得放权。
2. A deepening of the European crisis won't leave China unscathed. But exposure to Europe won't prove China's Achilles heel.
   欧债危机的继续深化不会令中国毫发无损，但对欧洲存在风险敞口并非中国的致命要害。
3. For despite the dull-as-ditchwater reputation, the sector has an Achilles heel: unlike bank accounts, money market funds are not covered by any deposit insurance, and investors can redeem their money at will.
   原因在于，尽管享有呆若死水的名声，但货币市场基金业有一个阿喀琉斯之踵：与银行账户存款不同，货币市场基金没有任何存款保险为其提供担保，投资者还可随时赎回。
4. Delegating is so critically important that for many aspiring managers it literally becomes their Achilles Heel& their fatal weak spot that can make or break their careers.
   委派工作对于领导者来说极为重要，它甚至成了很多有理想、有抱负的经理人的阿喀琉斯之踵，可能成就、也可能毁掉一个经理人的事业。
5. Ben Willmott, of the CIPD, said: Leadership and management capability continues to be an Achilles heel for UK plc, despite mounting evidence that these are skills for growth essentials.
   英国特许人事与发展协会的本•威尔默特说：尽管大量证据表明领导能力和管理能力是经济增长的要素，然而这两方面的能力对英国上市有限公司而言依然是个软肋。
6. This has long been an achilles heel of the EC2 platform.
   持久存储一直是EC2平台的一个薄弱环节。
7. Housing is the Achilles heel of the recovery and Bernanke is not about to let borrowing costs move too far against him.
   房地产市场是经济复苏的‘阿喀琉斯之踵’，伯南克不会让借贷成本违背他的意愿增长太高。
8. The Achilles heel of the Australian economy today is that, although its structure is geared to international trade, its participation in trade has declined.
   澳大利亚今天经济中的阿可琉斯的后脚跟是：虽然它在不断的参与世界贸易，但是它在世界贸易的地为已经下降。注。
9. The Achilles heel of this economy – ironically – is the trade sector, he says.
   具有讽刺意味的是，中国经济的致命要害恰好是贸易领域，他表示。
10. Is being a woman a source of strength in politics – or an Achilles heel?
    在政治中，女性身份到底是一个长处，还是一个软肋？
11. His Achilles Heel is braking; he has to have a car with good braking stability and suffers if he doesn't get it.
    他的命门是刹车，他的赛车需要有相当稳定的刹车系统，如果没有他就会昂倒了。
12. English is his Achilles heel.
    英语是他的软肋。
13. Marketing and advertising could be the "Achilles Heel" in China's automotive dream.
    行销与广告可能是中国汽车梦想的“要害”。
14. Expensive and problem-prone gearboxes have always been the Achilles heel of conventional Wind Turbines.
    昂贵和容易出现问题的变速箱，一直是常规风力涡轮机的致命弱点。
15. It shows that China has already arrived when it can to aero-technology which was its achilles heel.
    他说明了中国已经掌握了黄金时期弱项的航空技术。
16. 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。
17. They bruised the Achilles heel of him.
    他们击中了他惟一致命的弱点。
18. A month ago before the market convulsions that precipitated a government intervention to save Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley a top Wall Street banker pinpointed the Achilles heel of the business model of standalone investment banks.
    一个月前，也就是这波促使政府出手拯救高盛（goldmansachs）和摩根士丹利（morganstanley）的市场动荡出现之前，一位华尔街顶级银行家准确指出了独立投行业务模式的致命弱点。
19. Its failure to create the conditions for the emergence of a political class is the achilles heel of Hong Kong's system.
    它未能创造条件，促成政治阶层的形成，这是香港体制的致命弱点。
20. Achilles heel means the vulnerable place or fatal weakness.
    比喻易受伤害的地方或致命弱点。
21. The paper suggests that botnets'command and control mechanism may be their Achilles heel.
    该文件提出僵尸网络的指挥和控制机制可能是其致命弱点。
22. English is my Achilles heel.
    英文是我的罩门。
23. The enemy's Achilles heel is his harbor defences.
    敌人的弱点在其海港防御。
24. But could it be the Achilles heel of the financial markets?
    然而，CDS是否会是金融市场的阿珂琉斯之踵？
25. This is the Achilles heel of market economies.
    这是市场经济的致命弱点。
26. The key to all this is to recognise that private, not public, finance, has been the Achilles heel of the system.
    所有这一切的关键在于，要认识到欧元区的阿喀琉斯之踵不是公共金融，而是私人金融。
27. The dark's true Achilles heel is the torpedoed monetary system which is on its last legs.
    黑暗势力的真实弱点是他们的货币系统。
28. South Korea views its banks 'difficulties with meeting short-term foreign currency debt payments as its Achilles heel.
    韩国认为其银行业的阿喀琉斯之踵在于难以满足短期外汇债务的偿债需求。
29. Mechanized maize harvest is the Achilles heel in the completely mechanized maize production and it a major researched area in China's agricultural mechanization.
    玉米收获机械化是玉米全程机械化的薄弱环节，也是目前我国农业机械化的主攻方向，各地正在积极采取措施以提高玉米机械化水平。
30. So the living conditions of atomization and fragmentation become Achilles heel of peasants 'interest expression.
    原子化、碎片化的生存状态，也因此成为了农民利益表达的阿喀琉斯之踵。