来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国 第2集 第2集》

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  and all the pigeons would come to that place,
  所有的鸽子都会去那里啄食
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  and then you engulf the pigeons and you have this powerful balloon
  把鸽子都包起来就成了个浮力很大的气球
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  that can carry all these people in some sort of airborne stagecoach,
  可以做成空中马车 载上所有人
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  or diligence, out of Paris.
  带大家离开巴黎
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  But, the thing,
  但这件事情
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  it becomes less and less funny and not at all.
  渐渐不那么好笑 最后沦为空谈
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  And, at the very beginning there was a train
  一开始的时候 有一趟火车
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  that went around the Wall of Paris,
  是绕着巴黎城墙行驶的
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  more about the walls of Paris another time,
  下次我们多讲讲巴黎的城墙
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  that's fun to talk about, and Parisians would take picnic lunches,
  这挺值得一谈 巴黎人会带着午餐便当
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  and they'd get on the train,
  坐上火车
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  and then they'd hear these large explosions
  然后他们听见了巨大的爆炸声