It relies on a network of 80 peddlers who make a living out of pedaling to recharge the lights or cell-phones of their neighbors.

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Everybody's heard of Yankee peddlers.

没人不知北方小贩

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Peddlers who had these big, big leather bags that would go around Europe and sell things like pins and miraculous images of the Virgin Mary and the stories of saints and all this kind of stuff and Joan of Arc or Robin Hood, in the case of England, become part of the collective memory.

拿着大皮袋的小贩们走遍欧洲,到处贩卖例如胸针,圣母画像,圣徒故事,圣女贞德和罗宾汉之类的小册子,这成了英国大众记忆的一部分

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