I didn't want to be in the room--

我可不想呆在那房间里
but they were not carrier pigeons

但是它们不是信鸽
but they were pigeons-- people in France eat pigeons,

它们就是鸽子因为法国人吃鸽子
pigeonneau, and that they simply--

乳鸽人们只是吃
he had them in his backseat because he was going to take

他把它们放到汽车后座是因为
home and cook them, hopefully with lots of garlic, and to eat them.

他要带回家做菜吃幸亏还加了点蒜头
And Jean-Paul Sartre, he said it at the same time,

而且让·保罗·萨特同时也说过
that if he had to choose sides in the Cold War,

如果要他在冷战中选择
he would choose the USSR.

他会支持苏维埃
Now Sartre, like lots of fellow travelers, were delusional about

萨特跟许多随后的游客一样对斯大林
what had happened in Stalin's Soviet Union,

统治下的前苏联抱有幻想
and his partner, Simone de Beauvoir,

还有他的配偶西蒙娜·德·波伏瓦