This direct question went to the root of the matter.

这个直接的问题触及了问题的根源。

It's that, and you have the root of the matter.

就是这样，你找到了问题的根源。

No, I wasn't satisfied, and I determined that I would get to the root of the matter.

无法忍受。 不，我是我很满意， 我决定追根究底。

We usually get into a big fight and then we make up, but we don't ever get at the root of the matter.

我们通常会大吵一架， 然后和好如初，但我们永远不会追根究底。

It presented, as the astute reader will have already perceived, few difficulties in its solution, for a very limited choice of alternatives must get to the root of the matter.

正如精明的读者已经察觉到的那样， 它提出的解决方案几乎没有困难， 因为只有非常有限的选择才能找到问题的根源。

Nor do I pretend that the foregoing remarks go to the root of the matter: no explanation is offered why an organism, when placed under unnatural conditions, is rendered sterile.

我也不假装上述评论触及了问题的根源：没有解释为什么有机体在非自然条件下会变得不育。

It might have seemed a little curious that such a wish should have come upon her so suddenly, but the root of the matter did not lie in what Valentina Mihailovna had said.

这么突然的愿望似乎有点奇怪，但事情的根源并不在于瓦莲京娜·米哈伊洛夫娜所说的话。

I have run across someone—a decent clever chap, but unfortunately, however hard I may try to get nearer him, he has no need of either me or my pamphlets—that is the root of the matter!

我遇到过一个人——一个体面的聪明人，但不幸的是，无论我多么努力地接近他，他都不需要我或我的小册子——这就是问题的根源！

And there is the root of the matter; writing has come to be recognized as a profession, almost as cut-and-dried as church or law; a lad may go into it with full parental approval, with ready avuncular support.

这就是问题的根源；写作已被公认为一种职业，几乎与教会或法律一样千篇一律；一个小伙子可能会在父母的完全同意和长辈的支持下进入它。