It was a symptom of the Japan disease, which led to the first of two lost decades for that country.
这是“日本病”的一个症状，也是该国“失去的20年”中第一个10年的罪魁祸首。When I finally did force a review, I realized what a disaster the code was, and that most of it had to be rewritten.
当我最终强迫自己进行检查时，我才发现这段代码正是罪魁祸首，因此不得不对其中的大部分内容进行重写。Asked about whether the U. S. was to blame for causing the economic slide, Obama said he preferred to look ahead, not back.
当问及美国作为引起经济下滑的罪魁祸首是否负有责任时，奥巴马表示他更喜欢凡是向前看，而非向后。Global warming, a heated topic of today, is often taken for granted to be responsible for the harsh weather.
全球变暖是现在的热门话题，常常理所当然地被看成恶劣气候的罪魁祸首。A more plausible culprit for rising inequality seems to be technological progress (see chart below).
导致不平等程度日益加重的一个更为可能的罪魁祸首似乎是技术进步（见下图）。When it comes to global economic imbalances, Germany, with its massive trade surplus, is often seen as one of the worst offenders.
每当谈到全球经济失衡，拥有巨额贸易顺差的德国往往被视为最大的罪魁祸首之一。She`s the guilty one, she did it all, and she wanted to use the report to cover it up and drag us into it.
她是罪魁祸首，她干了所有的事，她想利用这个报告掩盖事实，把我们拖进去。At first, scientists thought a new strain of disease might be responsible. Right now, he said, that doesn't appear to be the case.
刚开始，科学家们认为可能某种新型疾病是罪魁祸首。现在，杰夫•佩蒂斯认为情况并非如此。Thanks to a pool of magma 50 miles below the surface, dangerous gases had been collecting at the bottom of the crater lake.
罪魁祸首就是地下50英里（约合80.5公里）处的一座岩浆池——在湖底火山口处不断涌出危险的气体。