口语进阶-叙事口语材料：赌博的坏处03
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原文及翻译
Gambling is especially attractive to older and retired people, since older people don't have much chance of making a lot of new money. The thought of winning the jackpot is very attractive to them. Casinos regularly run buses from retirement homes so that seniors can come and gamble.
赌博对老年人和退休人员尤其有吸引力，因为老年人没有太多机会赚到很多新钱。中大奖的想法对他们很有吸引力。赌场定期从养老院开出巴士，以便老年人可以来赌博。
Some would see this as taking advantage of lonely people. There are stories in the newspaper about couples leaving their children locked in the car for six or eight hours while they gamble. One man hoped to improve his finances by gambling, but he lost heavily. His wife found out and went gambling herself, hoping to win some of the money back. Before long, they had to sell their house to pay their gambling debt.
有些人认为这是在利用孤独的人。报纸上有一些关于夫妇把孩子锁在车里六到八个小时而自己赌博的故事。一个男人希望通过赌博来改善自己的财务状况，但他输得很惨。他的妻子发现了这件事，自己也去赌博，希望能赢回一些钱。不久，他们不得不卖掉房子来偿还赌债。
Gambling has usually been associated with organized crime. Even today, when government agencies supervise gambling, it would appear that there is still a crime connection. This may be because many of the best gamblers and gambling administrators learn their trade outside of the law.
赌博通常与有组织犯罪有关。即使在今天，当政府机构监督赌博时，似乎仍然存在犯罪联系。这可能是因为许多最好的赌徒和赌博管理者都是在法律之外学习他们的交易。
Besides this, gambling establishments attract various forms of crime to the area. Since law and government have an important educational function, one doesn't like to see them involved in gambling. Government should be more than profit maximizers; they should be concerned chiefly with the public good.
除此之外，赌博场所还会吸引各种形式的犯罪分子来到该地区。由于法律和政府具有重要的教育功能，人们不希望看到它们参与赌博。政府不应只追求利润最大化；他们应该主要关心的是公众利益。
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