1. Rex Coile's life is a narrow box, so dark and confining he wonders how he got trapped inside, whether he'll ever get out.
雷克斯·科尔的生活好似一个狭窄的盒子, 如此黑暗和压抑，他奇怪他是怎么被困在里面，他是否会永远出不来。
2. He never goes to the movies, never sees concerts, never lies on a sunny beach, never travels on vacation, never spends Christmas with his family.
他从来不去看电影，从来没看过演唱会，从来没有躺在阳光明媚的沙滩上，从来没有旅行休假，从不与他的家人度过圣诞节。
Instead, Rex shares floor space in cheap motels with other compulsive gamblers, comforting himself with delusional dreams of jackpots that will magically wipe away three decades of wreckage.
与此相反的是，雷克斯与那些嗜赌如命的人合住在廉价的汽车旅馆内，幻想着有一天从天而将的头奖能够奇迹般地一扫前30年的凄惨，并以此美梦安慰自己。
He has lost his marriage, his home, his Cadillac, his clothes, his diamond ring. Not least of all, in the card clubs of Southern California, he has lost his pride.
他已经失去了他的婚姻，他的家，他的凯迪拉克，他的衣服，他的钻戒。尤其是在南加州的纸牌俱乐部，他失去了他的自尊心。
3. Rex no longer feels sorry for himself, not after a 29-year losing streak that has left him scrounging for table scraps to feed his habit. Still, he agonizes over what he has become at 54 and what he might have been.
雷克斯不再感到对不起自己，即使是在因为29年的连败而使他不得不通过搜寻餐桌上的残羹剩饭来继续他的嗜好后，也不感到愧疚。而且，他仍然纠结在在他54岁的时候他成为了什么或者他或许已经成为了什么。
4. Articulate, intellectual, he talks about existential philosophy, the writings of Camus and Sartre. He was once an editor at Random House.
他条理清晰，思维敏捷地谈论着现在实存哲学，加缪和萨特的著作。他曾经是兰顿书屋的一
名编辑。
His mind is so jampacked with tidbits about movies, television, baseball and history that card room regulars call him "Rex Trivia," a name he cherishes for the remnant of self-respect it gives him.
他的脑袋里满是关于电影、电视、棒球和历史的花边新闻，以至于室里的常客称他为“琐事百事通雷克斯”，他把这个别称珍视为是他仅剩的自尊给予他的。
"There's a lot of Rexes around these card rooms," he says in a whisper of resignation and sadness.
“在室里可有很多雷克斯呢。”他无奈地低叹道。
5. And their numbers are soaring as gambling explodes across America, from the mega-resorts of Las Vegas to the gaming parlors of Indian reservations, from the riverboats along the Mississippi to the corner mini-marts selling lottery tickets.
随着赌博在全美流行，他们的数量也在激增。从拉斯维加斯的众多度假村到印度人预定的游戏会客厅，从密西西比河沿岸的游艇上到市中心小型超市的贩售点上（到处都是他们的身影。）
With nearly every state in the union now sanctioning some form of legalized gambling to raise revenues, evidence is mounting that society is paying a steep price, one that some researchers say must be confronted, if not reversed.
因为美利坚的几乎每个州现在都认可通过合法赌博来赚取利益的某些形式，证据正在与日俱增，整个社会为此付出了高昂的代价，一些研究者称必须正视这个问题，否则无法逆转。
editor版本6. Never before have bettors blown so much money--a whopping $50.9 billion last year--five times the amount lost in 1980. That's more than the public spent on movies, theme parks, recorded music and sporting events combined.
  赌徒们一掷千金，前所未有。去年高达509亿元，是1980年的5倍！超过了公众在电影、主题公园、唱片、体育运动上花费的总和。
A substantial share of those gambling losses--an estimated 30% to 40%--pours from the pockets and purses of chronic losers hooked on the adrenaline rush of risking their money, intoxicated by the fast action of gambling's incandescent world.
  据估计那些沉溺于因冒险得到的刺激感的赌徒们从口袋钱包里拿出的30%-40%的钱，那因赌博损失的大量的钱，是因为沉溺于赌博的狂热世界里的快速交易（而产生的）。
9. The Internet has democratized MT and boosted demand dramatically, as users around the world struggle to understand pages in languages other than their own. And as companies set up increasingly elaborate websites, they have become aware of the need to maintain multiple sites in different countries and serve customers in different languages. Of America's 100 largest firms, 33 had multilingual websites at the end of 1999, and 57 did a year later. A study by Aberdeen Group, a management consultancy, found that, on average, users spend up to twice as long at a site, and are four times more likely to buy something from it, if it is presented to them in their own language. Another study by IDC, a technology consultancy, found that only 5% of the 50 top websites responded appropriately to e-mail q
ueries in a foreign language; most simply asked for the message to be resent in English. All of which highlights the need for MT systems to provide on-the-fly translations, and for elaborate publishing systems that can manage multilingual websites.
因为全世界的网民因理解非母语页面产生的困难，互联网民主化了机器翻译并且快速提高了需求。由于企业加速建立了很多复杂精致的网站，他们越来越意识到需要维护不同国家的网站并为使用不同语言的顾客服务。在美国最大的100家公司中，截止至1999年年底，其中的33家有双语言网站，一年以后，则达到55家。由一家名叫亚伯丁集团的管理咨询公司制作的调查显示，如果网站使用的是网民的母语的话，那么他们可能会花高出其他网站2倍的时间来浏览，并且，在该网站上购物的几率超出在其他网站4倍。另一项由IDC，一家科技顾问公司制作的研究显示：前50家主流网站中，仅5%的会使用外语来有效回复中的请求，且大部分的问题用英语重新回复了一下。所有机器翻译系统所提供的关于头版头条需要的真时翻译以及完善出版需要的都能成功管理多语言网站。
 
11. Unfortunately, MT systems work best when they have been customised for a particular
subject area, such as microbiology, aerospace or particle physics. This involves analysing typical documents and adding common words and technical terms to the system's dictionary. Using MT to translate Internet pages, which can be about anything at all, therefore produces terrible results, since no customisation is possible. To make matters worse, most MT systems were designed for use with high quality documents, whereas many web pages, chat-rooms and e-mails tend to involve slang, colloquial language and ungrammatical constructions.

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