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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This was an act of compulsion, and the poet had to be forced to press this lyric out of himself.

这是一个强迫性的行为,诗人被迫绞尽脑汁写出这首诗来。

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we race off under the compulsion of the meaning of the red light, which is "go," right?

他看到红鼻子的驯鹿就出发了，因为红色代表出发，对吗？

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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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Take somebody who perhaps suffers from some sort of compulsion to wash his hands.

就拿某些有洗手强迫症的人做例子。

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For example, by the way, the compulsion to repeat nasty episodes, - to revisit trauma, and to repeat the unpleasurable-- well, that could just be called masochism, couldn't it?

举个例子，强迫性地重复那些凶的片段，去重温创伤，重复不愉快-,不正是一种性虐待吗？

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How does this compulsion to return to the traumatic event in any way correspond to or submit itself to explanation in terms of the pleasure principle?"

这些强制性回到创伤回忆中的行为,有是怎样以,快乐原则的形式体现出来的呢？

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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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- 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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