有些加入了“棒棒军”，肩挑竹竿（本地方言又叫“棒棒”）从事货物运送。

Some join the bangbang army, composed of the poorest migrants carrying heavy loads on their shoulders suspended from bamboo poles—bang bangs—in local parlance.

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而且农村民工拿着竹棒棒和麻绳，加入了棒棒军大队伍，指望着帮着人搬货物和麻袋走上几乎不可走的斜坡。

And rural migrants took up bamboo poles and skeins of rope to join the so-called "stick-stick army" of porters, looking to haul bags of groceries or sacks of concrete mix along unnavigable inclines.

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而且农村民工拿着竹棒棒和麻绳，加入了棒棒军大队伍，指望着帮着人搬货物和麻袋走上几乎不可走的斜坡。

And rural migrants took up bamboo poles and skeins of rope to join the so-called "stick-stick army" of porters, looking to haul bags of groceries or sacks of concrete mix along unnavigable inclines.

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