Delayed answers often set the heart searching itself, and so lead to contrition and spiritual reformation: deadly blows are thus struck at our corruption, and the chambers of imagery are cleansed.

因此，向我们的败坏作致命的打击，反而会使我们的内心深处得到洁净。

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This is a potentially deadly condition in which the individual chambers of a heart beat out of phase with each other.

ECONOMIST: Model behaviour