- Part of the compulsion to repeat is, in a certain sense-- part of the hope of mastery in the compulsion to repeat is to keep up the kind of vigilance which you failed to have in the past and therefore fail to ward it off.

所以强迫性重复一部分可能是由于-,一种希望，人在重复回忆的时候,感觉可以保护自己，控制不让灾难再次发生,以便不会再次失足。

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He doesn't at first hear the horn fail to blow, and then later, when a truck pulls up behind him, he fails to hear a horn that does blow: He was looking at the sign, and he didn't hear the horn.

在一开始,是他没有注意到这点，到后来卡车停在身后时，他连响的喇叭都听不到了：,“他看着那个标牌，以至于没听到喇叭声。

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He tried to intimidate us too much with his promise of impossible grading so that everyone took the class credit/D/fail, when we all probably ended up with As or Bs.

他经常试着吓唬我们,通过他承诺的不可能的分数等级,所以每个人都虔诚的来上课/D/不及格，当我们几乎都已As或Bs结束时。

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