以历史的渊源来解释更有可能：布莱顿是六十年代最早认可药物依赖的地区之一，这可能为它是吸毒者的好地方建立了名声。

An historical explanation may be more likely: Brighton was one of the first places to acquire a drug-dependency unit in the 1960s, perhaps establishing a reputation as a good place for addicts.

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在一封写给法官的信中，内勒承认他是一个吸毒者。

Naylor acknowledged, in a letter to the judge, that he was a drug addict.

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它是阴暗的，到处是不可自拔的吸毒者，还有那些被非正式的宣告为毫无价值的老人们，除了死神，他们没有什么好等。

It was all dark; it was all full of drug-addicts and unofficially declared insignificant old people waiting for no one but the angel of bereavement.

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