WERE it not for several remarkable feats of civil engineering, the City of Angels would still be a sleepy town on the banks of a small, meandering river in southern California.

如果不是因为几个重大的土木工程，洛杉矶可能还是加利福利亚南部的某蜿蜒小河沿岸的一座沉睡的小镇。

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For example, the text of Genesis 19 centers upon the story of Lot's visitation in the city of Sodom by two angels.

例如，“创世记”第19章以罗德与两个天使探视所多玛城的故事为中心。

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The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

那两个天使晚上到了所多玛；罗得正坐在所多玛城门口，看见他们，就起来迎接，脸伏于地下拜

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Today: music,photographs and a basketball star, all brought to you from the City of Angels, Los Angeles,California.

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It is also called the City of Angels because Los Angeles means "the angels" in Spanish.

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Mr Berendt has breathed deeply the air of the city of falling angels the title comes from a sign on the steps of the Salute church in the early 1970s, when Venice seemed to be crumbling.

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Expect the intensity of the rhetoric on the respective feasibility of these projects to only become more heated during 2011 as AEG plays catch-up, and do not be surprised if a franchise like Jacksonville, Buffalo, Minnesota, or San Diego ultimately decides to migrate to the City of Angels within the next 5 years.

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The City of Angels is home to the fourth highest crime rate of the 50 cities measured with more than 20, 000 violent crimes committed in 2011 according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report and an unemployment rate of 10.3%, nearly three points higher than the national average.

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