The son of a poor rickshaw-puller who is taken out of school as a boy and put to work in a teashop, Balram nurses dreams of escape.
他是一个贫穷车夫的儿子。年幼时，他中途辍学，到一家茶社里打杂，但他一直梦想逃离这种生活。
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Sitting in the back of a cycle-rickshaw on a parched summer's day in his hometown of Begusarai, he asked his rickshaw-puller for a drink of water.
那是一年夏天，他在贝古萨莱区的一辆人力车里，口干舌燥，便向车夫讨口水喝。
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An older woman with marketing to do, for instance, can arrive in a rickshaw, have the rickshawpuller wait until she comes back from various stalls to load her purchases, and then be taken home.