These are the five besetting sins of a general, ruinous to the conduct of war.

凡此五者，将之过也，用兵之灾也。

Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness—faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

而且赌起来有个坏习惯———认死理，对一套赌法坚信不移，也注定他要倒霉。

" Modesty always was your besetting sin, " remarked Tommy.

“谦虚总是困扰你罪过，”汤米说。

Who cares if there is this creeping sameness besetting our planet?

谁在乎我们星球是否存在这种令人毛骨悚然千篇一律？

I had such an interesting talk with Mrs. Allan about besetting sins last Sunday afternoon.

上周日下午，我与艾伦夫人就困扰罪恶进行了非常有话。

But then, Diana, even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else.

但是，戴娜，即使是牧师也是人，和其他人一样，也有他们罪恶。

I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.

那时候我还不懂女人一种无法摆脱恶习--热衷于同任何一个愿意倾听人讨论自己私事。

For Fatma Oussedik, an Algerian sociologist and professor at the University of Algiers, authorities' permissiveness towards sheep fights signals a quiet crisis besetting both masculinity and politics.

阿尔及利亚社会学家、阿尔及尔大学教授法特玛-欧塞迪克（Fatma Oussedik）认为，当局对斗羊纵容预示着一场困扰男性和政治悄然危机。

My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself.

当我躺在那里时，我害怕生病，不适应明天生活，如此困扰着我，我想知道它并没有让我自己失去能力。

This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.

这种对显要人物蔑视，或者更确切地说，是对登上显要人物辛劳恐惧，可能被称为这一时期战争困扰性弱点。

There are just a few things it's proper to talk about on Sundays and that is one of them. My besetting sin is imagining too much and forgetting my duties.

只有几件事适合在星期天论，这就是其中之一。我罪过是想得太多而忘记了自己职责。

However much his influence among his people had been impaired by his occasional and besetting weakness, as well as by his desertion of the tribe, his courage and his fame as an orator were undeniable.

不管他在他人民中影响力因他偶尔和困扰弱点以及他对部落背叛而受到损害， 但他勇气和他作为演说家名声是不可否认。