In the backstreets are hints of what Kunming might once have been and for many still is.

昆明的后街小巷暗示出这座城池的以往，甚至现在的模样。

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They evidently feel alienated from a process that has embraced most of society, but which has not yet permeated these particular backstreets.

人们开始接受多数社会，虽然该进程还没有渗透到这些特殊的后街小巷，但他们显然感觉到被疏远了。

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It is too big and obnoxious to be held in a small unpoliceable warren of backstreets.

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