but like a losing gambler who keeps ondoubling down, the u.s. doesn’t know when to quit.
美国就像一个输红了眼的赌徒越输越赌,不知道什么时候回头是岸。
a gambler once said to the master, 「i was caught cheating at cards yesterday, so my partners beat me up and threw me out of the window. what would you advise me to do」?
某次,一个赌徒对大师说:“我在打牌时作弊被抓住了,同伴们把我暴打一顿并扔出了窗外。
in his defeat the gambler finds none to pity him.
没有人怜悯失败的赌徒。
one of them was andrew black, an eccentric genius, gambler and computer expert with too much time on his hands.
其中一个是安德鲁·布莱克,此人集怪才、赌徒、电脑高手于一身,平时清閑得很。
john polidori, who was born just as the 18th century drew to a close, was a doctor, gambler and literary dabbler.
约翰·波里道利(johnpolidori),生于18世纪末期,是一名医生,一个赌徒,一位业余作家。
eventually he gambles away all his money and has to borrow a quarter from another gambler just to use the men「s room.
最后他把所有的钱都输光了,以至于他想上洗手间时不得不从另一个赌徒那里借了个硬币。
about a year later, the gambler went back to the bar, and found the bar had got another jar of twenties there.
大约过了一年左右,赌徒再次来到那家酒吧,见到酒吧里又有一大瓶子钱,还是20元一张的钞票。
after the professional gambler had wun thousands of dollars from the bar, he walked into the next bar the other day.
却说那个赢了好几千美元的职业赌徒,过几天又来到另一家酒吧。
when we elected obama, we didn」t know what a gambler we were getting.
当我们选举奥巴马为总统时,我们不知道自己得到的是怎样一个赌徒。
this sounds a little like a racetrack allowing a gambler to select horses and jockeys to run in a race, without informing the other bettors.
(这听起来有点像跑马场让个赌徒选赛马和骑手,压根没向赌马的人知会一声)。
the gambler took his money and left without a word.
赌徒拿起钱,一言不发,走了。
this behavior is similar to the gambler who makes a series of larger bets in hopes of breaking even.
这就像某类赌徒,他会下一系列大的赌注,希望在最后的时候可以不输不赢。
here was a gambler drastically raising the stakes to stay ahead of the game.
这就如同一名赌徒竭力提高赌注以保持在赌局中的领先地位。
albert「s the kind of gambler who」s changed the course of his life on the toss of a coin.
阿尔伯特是那种把毕生的精力都花在抛掷硬币上的赌徒。