but it simply goes on and on.

然而围困的僵局还是丝毫没有打破的迹象
And during the siege there were sixty-five balloon flights carrying

在巴黎被围期间共放出了六十五个热气球
two and a half million letters,

带走了多达两百五十万封信
weighing a grand total of 10,000 kilograms,

合计重量约有一万公斤
so roughly about 20,000 pounds.

也就是两万磅左右
One astronomer actually left Paris to go off

期间还有一位天文学家乘坐热气球离开巴黎
and to observe an eclipse.

去观看月食
They begin using pigeons in order to fly messages out,

法国人一开始是用飞鸽传书的
and then the Germans,

随后那些被描述成
who were of course portrayed as committing atrocities--

残暴冷血的德国兵
and they'd committed a few,

事实上他们并没有那么残忍
they'd shot some people up in the northeast,

他们是在巴黎东北部射杀了一些人