What’s more, I could sense a hovering aura of sleaze: you don’t play at 2 a.m. without gambling, and the men who bet big often have “company” for the night.

更甚的是，我嗅到腐化的意味：人们不会在半夜两点时不赌博，而且那些赌的很大的人经常有“伴儿”。

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Gambling houses ran full blast and hardly a night passed without its shooting or cutting affray.

赌场经营最兴旺，几乎没有一夜不发生开枪、动刀子或打架的事。

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Recent studies show cell phone addiction resembles those of pathological gambling. Among the signs of addiction is feeling anxious and depressed without your phone.

最新的研究表明手机依赖症与病态嗜赌症类似，其症状之一是离开手机就会感觉焦虑和压抑。

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Sunshine Flint's "Vegas glitz without the gambling" looks beyond the craps table at the city's newest high-end options for dinner, nightlife and spa pampering.

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What if they sent their traders back to Las Vegas where they could continue their taste for gambling without risk to the public, and started focusing their business on activities that would grow the real economy?

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Propositions to legalise or expand commercial gambling are never without controversy, yet they never stop surfacing.

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