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A self-described "Jeffersonian Marxist," Stone combined progressive politics, investigative zeal and a compulsion to tell the truth with a commitment to human rights and the exposure of injustice.

斯通自称是“杰斐逊马克思主义者”，他把进步的政治、调查的热情、说出真相的冲动与对人权和揭露不公正的承诺结合在一起。

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As emotional human beings, we feel a compulsion to personalise most aspects of life.

作为情感丰富的人类，我们不自觉地要使生活的方方面面人性化。

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I said that Yeats looks on the modern with a sense of both horror and a fascination, a compulsion almost.

我说过叶芝看待现代是,以一种害怕和好奇的感觉，一种难以压抑的冲动。

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A more recent side effect of Ambien that's quite serious is some people become--have the compulsion while they're sleeping to go driving, which is not good.

最近发现安必恩一个挺严重的副作用,有些人睡觉时,会有梦游驾车的冲动，这可不是好事。

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It's one that I suppose we could continue to entertain as a kind of skepticism about this way of understanding the compulsion to repeat as somehow necessarily entailing a theory of the death wish.

所以我觉得我们可以把它当作一个,对强迫性重复作为死亡冲动的理论依据的怀疑,看看就行。

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HMOs after a nervous breakdown leaves him with a compulsion to tell the truth.

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Might the problem be more like a compulsion than an addiction, more like compulsive hand-washing than alcoholism?

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For some writers it's a compulsion to go that distance and hear their voice as a remote echo.

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