Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly considered a sin, or a social disease.

赌博永远是美国人生活的一个共同特征，但很长一段时间以来，它被广泛地认为是一种罪恶，抑或是一种社会疾病。

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When did eating butter become a sin, and a little bit of extra flesh unappealing, if not repellent?

什么时候吃黄油变成了一种罪过，多吃一点肉就算不招人讨厌，也不招人喜欢了？

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Queue-jumpe is a kind of rudeness rather than a sin.

插队是一种无礼的行为，但不是罪恶。

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There has been a long tradition of interpreting the deed or the sin of Adam and Eve as sexual, and there are some hints in the story that would support such an interpretation.

很长的一段时间中，我们把亚当夏娃所犯的原罪,解释为他们之间的性举动，这个故事中，有些暗示,与这种解释，不谋而合。

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Jacob Milgrom has argued that there's a kind of Archimedean principle at work here: every sin creates an impurity that encroaches upon the realm of holiness and displaces a certain amount of holiness.

雅各布·米尔格罗姆认为,这里存在着一种阿基米德原理：,每一种罪孽都会造成不洁,这种不洁逐渐蚕食神圣,慢慢取代神圣的位置。

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Like Milton's Sin, Spenser's Errour is half woman, half serpent, and in a lot of ways she embodies the very problem of religious error.

像弥尔顿笔下的罪恶之神，斯潘塞笔下的“错误“是一位，一半女人一半毒蛇的怪物，她从各个方面具体化了宗教错误。

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Her husband had been emotionally abused as a child, she said, and he was guilty of "sin of weakness, not a sin of malice".

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And it is considered a sin of sorts to order a second of the same.

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Courts in California and other states are allowing suits over the sin of helping a company pile on debt it cannot repay.

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