More important, few residents of Las Vegas would any longer agree that their city is either great or happy.
更重要的是,拉斯维加斯的几位居民不再认为他们的城市让人感觉又棒又快乐。
「We are civilian police,」 he says, noting that the situation in Las Vegas and other U.S. cities is far from what it is in parts of Mexico or Afghanistan.
「我们是民事警察,」他说,要知道拉斯维加斯和其他美国城市的情况和墨西哥或是阿富汗地区相去甚远。
The shooting happened on the strip in Vegas after a Mike Tyson fight.
枪击发生在拉斯维加斯的一条大街上,就在泰森的比赛过后。
Vegas can be a hard sell to people who have the stereotypical casino view of it.
维加斯城对于脑中只有赌场的刻板印象的人来说,很难作为卖点。
Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, cancelled a conference in las Vegas at the last minute and rebooked it in San Francisco, which cost more but sounded less fun.
投资银行高盛在最后时刻取消了在拉斯维加斯的会议,并重新定在旧金山。其实旧金山的花费更高,但娱乐性质显得不是那么明显。
However, her own parents, who still live together, are also divorced, having legally separated in Las Vegas in 1999.
但是她的父母——虽然现在住在一起——也已经离婚了,于1999年在拉斯维加斯正式分开。
News of the Vegas 「organ harvesters」 has been passed on by thousands and thousands of people over the course of 10 years. It has been relayed by word of mouth, e-mail and even printed fliers.
有关维加斯「器官掠夺者」的消息已经在数以万计的人群中了近10年了——或是口口相传,或是通过电子邮件,又或者是通过海报传单。
The prestigious prize for public service went to The Las Vegas Sun for its exploration of a large number of construction worker deaths at some of that city’s biggest building sites.
最具分量的公共服务大奖由拉斯维加斯太阳报获得,理由是该报对拉斯维加斯州几个大型建筑工地公认高死亡率进行了深入报道。
One of the new MPs spent part of the campaign in Las Vegas on holiday.
新当选的代表当中有一人在竞选期间还前往拉斯维加斯度假。
That would be close to Las Vegas but well behind Macau, the only place in China where casinos are allowed, and which has more than 30.
这将接近拉斯维加斯但还远不及澳门(澳门有超过30多家赌场,也是中国境内唯一可以开设赌场的地方)。
It is quite legal, as one crowd-funding supporter says, 「to go to Vegas and lose all your money」.
一位支持大众融资的人说:「去拉斯维加斯输光所有的钱也很合法。」
These images of the western portion of the Las Vegas metropolitan area show the city「s steady spread into the adjacent desert landscape.
这些拉斯维加斯城市西部地区的图片,显示了该城逐步向邻近西部沙漠地区延伸的过程。
The law」s seniority rules theoretically mean that, for example, the taps to Las Vegas would be shut completely before a single lettuce-grower in California's Imperial County lost a drop.
法律中规定的用水优先权从理论上来看,比如在一位加州帝王郡种生菜的农民损失掉一滴水之前,整个拉斯维加斯的城市用水将被切断。
For years, financially squeezed Hawaii residents have been leaving in droves, setting up colonies in places they can afford, like the moonscapes of the Las Vegas suburbs.
多年以来,财政上挤压了夏威夷居民成群结队的离开,在他们能够支付的地方建立聚居地,就像拉斯维加斯郊区的月球表面一样。