English term
Devoting myself to translation
Native in: Chinese 
Works in: Chinese to English, English to Chinese, Japanese to Chinese, and 2 more.
bears expired British Columbian plates
He reaches over and pushes the car door open. Sera climbs in, and before raching the hotel they manage to discuss prostitution, black girls, and his children—in that order. One block down from the 7-11, in a yellow Mercedes, which is parked in the shadow of a silver camper and bears expired British Columbian plates, sits a sallow-skinned man, cutting a lone figure indeed.
On the eleventh floor of her trick’s hotel, having survived a misdirected march resulting from a wrong turn off the elevator, Sera lies on a surprisingly lumpy mattress and feels the familiar friction in her vagina.
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Responses
Türkiye
EN>DE Sailing / Tourism / Zoology
Native in: German (Variant: Germany) 
Works in: English to German, German
with expired BC number plates
it bears expired plates = the car has invalid number plates mounted/car with invalid BC number plates
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Note added at 6 mins (2015-04-09 06:28:53 GMT)
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I mean, the yellow Mercedes has expired number plates.
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Alok Tiwari
2 mins
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Thanks Alok :o)
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Yvonne Gallagher
: BC = Canadian
1 hr
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Thanks Gallagy :o)
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Eckhard Boehle
3 hrs
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Thank you Eckhard :o)
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Chien Nguyen
3 hrs
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Thank you Chien :o)
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George Rabel
6 hrs
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Thanks George :o)
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Phong Le
6 days
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Thanks :o)
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Netherlands
ATA cert.,ENHU transl.,MA,MS, Netherl.
Native in: Hungarian (Variant: Hungary) , English (Variant: British)
Works in: English to Hungarian, Hungarian to English, Dutch to Hungarian, and 2 more.
and (which) bears= has exp. Col. no. plates
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Note added at 42 mins (2015-04-09 07:04:37 GMT)
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In the headline of the answer, I wanted to write exp. Br. Col. (BC) no. plates of course, sorry.
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Note added at 1 hr (2015-04-09 08:00:52 GMT)
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Oh my, 'like here' is of course what I wanted to write ...
Discussion
The overall image is of a drifter - somebody who has come from a long way away and has either been travelling for a long time (long enough for the tax to expire) or is not law-abiding (or both).
He is also pale-skinned in a very sunny place which means that he either spends most of his time indoors or is only recently arrived.
It would not be a big surprise for such a person to end up in Las Vegas.