How is he going to pay the landlord?

他怎么交房租呢
He has no idea.

他没有办法
Where is he going to get his next drink?

他如何继续自己灯光酒影的生活呢
What does he do?

他应该怎么做呢
He works for the police.

他选择了为警察工作
He works as a police informer on the other would-be philosophes,

他作为警察线人告发
on the Grub Street hacks.

边缘街上未来的启蒙思想家
How do we know this?

我们怎么知道的呢
Darnton found the dossier

丹顿在档案中发现了
in which Brissot is being paid off by these people.

警察支付布里索报偿的记录
What are other ways that we know how many of these characters there were?

我们还有什么途径了解这种人的数量呢
There were about 200 to 300.

当时大概有两到三百人