一日译练 | Gambling会不会导致addiction？

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经常会看到新闻说xxx沉迷gambling，输光了自己的身价还要到处借钱。gambling真的那么上头嘛？一起来听听今天的speaker是咋说的叭~ 

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To me, non-drug addictions are really,really interesting, because some people have argued that drugs are addictivebecause they change the brain and that addiction results from unique pathologyrelated to the particular chemicals of the drugs. It is certainly the case thatthe chemistry matters, but addiction can occur completely without any externalchemicals. And the reason that that happens is that addiction is not simplyexposure to a substance, addiction is a pattern of behavior, and certainpatterns of experience are inherently addictive.

And gambling is a good example of thisbecause what gambling does is it gives you intermittent reinforcement. And soevery unpredictable amount of times, you win. And this is a puzzle to ourpattern-seeking brains, and we keep thinking we're going to find a pattern andit's going to sort out and we're gonna understand it, and we're gonna to getrich. Or we find that sort of the constant immersion in these ideas that allowyou to escape: “Well I've got to do—this is going to soothe youand allow you to escape from your life, and stuff like this.

I think gambling is also really interestingbecause we've had an enormous explosion in the availability of gambling, but wehave not had an enormous explosion of gambling addictions. And again, this is because thepopulation rate— there's only a certain percent of people who will be vulnerable.

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