作怪

Their diagnoses for a particular illness might include: punishment by spiritual beings (particularly gods of pestilence), being haunted by the souls of deceased persons (particularly the so-called malicious ghosts), offending demons or breaking taboos, bewitchment, and the soul being frightened.

他们认为，鬼神降祸、「厉鬼」作怪、冲犯凶神恶煞、祖先作祟、符咒与巫术的力量，以及灵魂受惊，都是人生病的主要原因。

3 Brill is kept awake by the memory of his loving but troubled marriage to Sonia, who is now dead.

我认同这是老头子失眠的原因，但是他醒着就是因为他们俩的记忆作怪吧！

And a subconscious effort to comply with his solemn assurance to Carney that he would be absolutely certain of death.

许是潜意识作怪，要遵守他对卡尼许下的庄重诺言，要绝对证实已经死亡了才埋。

He took a dominant pole position in the Ferrari and, despite chaotically rainy conditions, led for most of the race.

他驾驶着法拉利抢得杆位，尽管那天雨水多作怪，他还是领跑了大半场比赛。

After all, this is male chauvinism at play in.

说到底，这也是大男人主义在作怪了。

I to clear it, take clincher to try, indeed is the crab in time.

我为了弄清楚这件事，拿着夹子去试探，果真是螃蟹在作怪。

All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, were very largely a question of the money question which was at the back of everything greed and jealousy, people never knowing when to stop.

212据他的愚见，所有那些会激起敌意的无聊的争吵都意味着代表斗志的乳突或某种内分泌腺在作怪。人们错误地以为这就是为名誉啦国旗之类的细枝末节——其实，闹的主要是隐在一切事物背后的金钱问题：也就是贪婪与妒忌，人们永远也不懂得及时善罢甘休。

Whether that's true or not, that's cognitive dissonance in action.

不管那是对或错，都是认知失调在作怪。

The US was driven by Cold War concerns about the spread of communism, particularly "domino theory"?

美国担心共产主义扩张，受"冷战"思维的影响而被卷入，这不就是典型的"多米诺骨牌理论"在作怪吗？

In the Turn of the Screw, are ghosts making troubles or desires making troubles?

螺丝在拧紧，鬼魂作怪耶？欲望作怪耶？

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。