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The weak link: County employees had been logging into the network through their home computers, leaving a gaping security hole.
薄弱环节是：郡上的员工曾通过家里的电脑登录过该网络，由此留下了一个安全缺口。
This is an attack on the euro zone by certain other interests, political or financial, and often countries are being used as the weak link, if you like, of the euro zone.
对欧元区的攻击源于某些特定的其它利益——政治的也好，金融的也罢——大多数情况下可以说是某些国家被当作了欧元区的薄弱环节。
The breaking of that "weak link" was the Russian Revolution, subsequently isolated by the failure of world revolution and the triumph of "socialism in one country" as a result of that isolation.
打破这一“薄弱环节”的是俄国革命，其后它被世界范围内革命的失败所孤立，而这种孤立导致了“社会主义可以在一国实现”的胜利。

In an interview via Skype, Mia Hashibe said there was a weak link between cancer risk and drinking decaffeinated coffee, but it wasn't statistically significant.

But helicopters, historically volatile and prone to cost-cutting demands by governments, may be GKN's weak link.
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The weak link that has allowed robots to turn Webmail into a spam hose?
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All the data says that usernames and passwords are the weak link in the security chain.
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薄弱环节
Owing to the complicated situation and environmental factors,the joint was the weak link of the drill equipment.
在钻井过程中,钻杆接头受力复杂、工作环境非常苛刻,它往往是钻井设备与工具中的薄弱环节。
电子、通信与自动控制技术
薄弱环节
Large number of high-voltage electric power network equipment itself and the connection between devices is the weakest link in the power transmission, the weak link in question is connected to the real point of heat.
电网中众多高压电气设备本身和设备之间的连接点是电力输送最薄弱环节,这个薄弱环节的实质问题就是联接点发热。
军事学
弱链