The sad thing is that the majority of people that are killed by malaria are children because there immune system is not strong enough to ward off this infection."

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The superfluous action suggests that there was something more at stake, perhaps, than Saint Ebba's attempt to ward off sexual assault.

过多的行动表明，有比,圣人Ebba试图保护自己不受侵犯更有风险的东西。

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You blame yourself as a victim of trauma for not having the sufficient vigilance in your outer cortex to ward it off.

你会因为你的脑皮层,不能有效保护你不受创伤危害,而成为创伤受害者。

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- 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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