有人甚至说我是种需要救治的顽疾。

Some even say that I am some kind of disease that needs to be cured.

对许多人来说，糖也许早就是久攻不下的顽疾了。

Sugar for many is something they may have been battling with for a long time, but the past is the past.

而“上有政策，下有对策”不断是我国政策执行的一大顽疾。

While "policy, the distorted policy-implementation in China is always one of the symptom of policy implementation."

外墙渗水是质量通病中的一种顽疾，它需要材料、设计、施工、使用各方面的综合治理。

The external wall seepage is one of common quality faults which could not be easily resolved in building engineering.

像他的劲敌一样，鲍卡斯的计划有个缺陷，就是起初几乎没有根治医疗成本太高的这个顽疾。

A flaw is that the Baucus plan, like its chief rivals, does too little to fix the perverse incentives driving up health costs in the first place.