When I started it was seen as a bit of an outlaw pastime, for rogues and cheats.

当我开始玩扑克的时候，这还是一种低级趣味的消遣，玩这东西的都是些流氓和骗子。

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A taboo would stop a lot of research but it wouldn't stop determined rogues.

禁忌能阻止很多研究，但它无法阻止坚定的流氓。

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So finding a way to prevent these rogues from reproducing is high on researchers' to-do lists.

因此找出一种防止这个坏家伙再生繁殖的方法成了研究人员的当务之急。

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In all, his chosen roles amount to a rogues' gallery of unsympathetic predators.

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Years of intensive investigation and computer forensics not to mention its own probing of Chinese networks has enabled the spy agency to assemble a rogues gallery of likely Chinese perpetrators.

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In three decades he has repeatedly rescued a rogues' gallery of trouble-prone or troublesome stars: the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon, as well as boxer-thug Mike Tyson, author Frank McCourt, the estate of Andy Warhol and titans such as Sony and Time Warner.

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