1·Bihar, a few hundred miles north of Kolkata, is where the vast majority of rickshaw pullers come from.
绝大多数人力车车夫都来自加尔各答以北几百英里的比哈尔。
2·There are people in Kolkata, particularly educated and politically aware people, who will not ride in a rickshaw.
在加尔各答，有些人，特别是教育和政治意识的人，不乘坐人力车。
3·Rickshaw supporters point out that when it comes to demeaning occupations, rickshaw pullers are hardly unique in Kolkata.
人力车支持者指出，在贬低职业方面，人力车车夫在加尔各答并不是唯一的。
4·Once in Kolkata, they sleep on the street or in their rickshaws or in a dera—a combination of garage and repair shop and dormitory managed by someone called a sardar.
一到加尔各答，他们就睡在大街上或是人力车里，或在由一个叫萨达尔的人管理的车库、修理店和宿舍的组合区域 dera 里。
5·Kolkata, a resident told me, "has difficulty letting go." One day a city official handed me a report from the municipal government laying out options for how rickshaw pullers might be rehabilitated.
加尔各答的一位居民告诉我：“很难放手。”一天，一位市政府官员给了我一份市政府的报告，上面列出了如何改造人力车夫的方案。