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The State Legislature recently voted against a bill that would’ve made it illegal for towns to create legislation restricting short-term rentals.

该州议会最近投票否决了一项法案，该法案若获通过，城镇制定限制短期租赁的法规就将成为违法行为。

At the end of 2018, Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts signed a bill to rein in those potential investor-buyers.

2018年底，马萨诸塞州州长查理·贝克签署了一项法案，以约束那些潜在的投资型买家。

The bill requires every rental host to register with the state, mandates they carry insurance, and opens the potential for local taxes on top of a new state levy.

该法案要求每位出租房东在州政府登记，强制他们购买保险，并在一项新的州税之外，为征收地方税开了口子。

The bill mentioned in Paragraph 2 was intended to ____

第2段提到的法案旨在____

The bill proved largely popular and sailed through Congress with large majorities in favor. In quick succession, the Senate and House passed legislation protecting Yellowstone in early 1872. That March, President Ulysses S. Grant signed an act into law that established Yellowstone as the world’s first national park. While some locals opposed to the designation, the decision was largely accepted — and Jackson’s photos played a key role in the fight to protect the area. “I don’t believe that the legal protection would have happened in the timeframe that it did without those images,” says Heather Hansen, journalist and author of Prophets and Moguls, Rangers and Rogues, Bison and Bears: 100 Years of the National Park Service.

事实证明，该法案广受欢迎，以压倒性多数顺利在国会通过。1872年初，参众两院相继迅速通过了保护黄石的立法。当年3月，尤利西斯·S·格兰特总统签署了一项法案，使其成为法律，从而将黄石确立为世界上第一个国家公园。尽管一些当地人反对这一认定，但这一决定在很大程度上被接受了——杰克逊的照片在保护该地区的斗争中发挥了关键作用。“我认为，如果没有那些图像，法律保护不会在那样的时间内实现，”记者希瑟·汉森说，她是《先知与大亨、护林员与无赖、野牛与熊：国家公园管理局100年》一书的作者。

In New Zealand, a 2016 private members’ Bill tried to permit firms and high-income employees to contract out of the unjustified dismissal regime.

在新西兰，2016年的一项议员私人法案试图允许企业和高收入员工通过合同约定不受不正当解雇制度的约束。

The moves are the most significant change to building regulations in years, and industry experts say they will inevitably lead to higher prices at a time when a shortage of materials and high labour costs are already driving up bills.

这些举措是多年来对建筑法规最重大的一次修改。业内专家表示，在材料短缺和高昂人工成本已经推高费用之际，这些举措必然会导致价格进一步上涨。

“Homeowners will probably recoup that cost over time in energy bill savings.

“随着时间推移，房主很可能会通过节省能源费用收回这笔成本。

[If], like most writers these days, you’re holding down a job to pay the bills, it’s not [easy] to find the time to write.

如果你像如今大多数作家一样，为了支付账单而保住一份工作，那么要找到写作的时间并不容易。

Energy companies can use AI to help customers reduce their electricity bills, saving them money while helping the environment.

能源公司可以利用人工智能帮助客户减少电费，在为他们省钱的同时也有益于环境。

And anything that raises GPAs will likely make students — who, at the end of the day, are paying the bill — feel they’ve gotten a better value for their tuition dollars, which is another big concern for colleges.

而任何能提高GPA的做法都可能让学生——他们毕竟是付钱的人——觉得自己交的学费更值，这是大学关心的另一件大事。

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

这就是为什么近年来多次改革立法的尝试都以失败告终，致使邮政署除了推迟至关重要的现代化建设外，无法支付账单。

A one-hour flight is now billed as a two-hour flight.

一小时的航班现在被标为两小时的航班。