and then behind them would become this huge Trojan horse,

他们后面会有一个巨大的特洛伊木马
which they would call the musical mitrailleuse,

他们把这称作音乐机枪
or the musical machinegun,

也就是音乐机关枪
which would then open up and start blasting away the poor Prussians,

它会突然开火把可怜的普军打飞
who were always assumed to be,

普鲁士人总是被认为
by the sneaky Parisians, to be very dumb,

被狡猾的巴黎人认为是非常笨的
but of course they weren't.

当然他们并不笨
And the other, somebody wrote in and said,

还有一个人交的答案写
well let's just take this huge tarp,

我们把一块巨大的防水布
put it on the Place de la Concorde,

放在协和广场上
put bacon and other things and use pigeon power,

置火腿等食物于其上利用鸽子的力量
and all the pigeons would come to that place,

所有的鸽子都会去那里啄食