boeuf et cheval salé froid--

牛肉和冷腌马肉
you couldn't do much with horse ice-cream,

你不能对马肉冰激凌指望太多
so it sort of trailed by the end.

所以就有些虎头蛇尾了
And somebody once wrote many a superb champion of Longchamps,

有人写过那些朗克汉普斯获的冠军赛马
that is the racetrack,

朗克汉普斯是赛道名
met their end on the table of some well-heeled person

它们的一生结束于一个
from the western fancy districts of Paris.

巴黎富人区的有钱人的餐桌上
But, it ceased being funny,

但是这不再那么有趣了
and it was nothing like the siege of Leningrad

而这和列宁格勒之围比就相形见绌了
where something like a million people died

二战时期的大概有一百万人
in World War Two of starvation; but,

被活活饿死但是
there were all sorts of little caskets

巴黎有各种棺材