gambling debts

基本解释

his novella “The Gambler” is thought to have been written to enable him to pay his gambling debts.
陀斯妥耶夫斯基的写作来自于他自己的亲身经历，普遍认为他的中篇小说《赌徒》是为了自己偿还赌债而创作出版的。
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures.
一个善良的店主因为巨额赌债使得暗藏珍宝的店被一个贪婪的地主侵占。
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Clark County, which encompasses Las Vegas, prosecutes roughly 200 cases involving gambling debts a month, says Bernie Zadrowski, who runs the bad-checks unit.
据执掌这个部门的扎德罗斯基（Bernie Zadrowski）说，拉斯维加斯隶属的克拉克县每月起诉大约200个涉及赌债的案件。

Nearly two-third of both women and men said that they would never help their children pay off gambling debts.
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Counterparties like Goldman Sachs, knowing it could use the bankruptcy laws to force AIG to sell high quality assets to pay off its gambling debts, played them like a Vegas card sharp never losing a minute of sleep worrying that the rube might go broke.
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