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.

“谦虚总是困扰你的罪过，”汤米说。

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

谁在乎我们的星球是否存在这种令人毛骨悚然的千篇一律？

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趣的谈话。

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

但是，戴安娜，即使是牧师也是人，和其他人一样，也有他们的罪恶。

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的一种无法摆脱的恶习--热衷于同任何一个愿意倾听的人讨论自己的私事。

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，当局对斗羊的纵容预示着一场困扰男性和政治的悄然危机。

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，不适应明天的生活，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.

这种对显要人物的蔑视，或者更确切地说，是对登上显要人物的辛劳的恐惧，可能被称为这一时期战争的困扰性弱点。