Hungry people of the city took some comfort in the knowledge

当得知老鼠们定居在
that their rats now populated the relatively well

纳粹战壕里的粮仓里
provisioned trenches of their German tormentors.

饥饿的列宁格勒人感到了一些欣慰
As the siege dragged on, the temperatures plummeted to -40 degrees.

围城继续气温急剧下降到零下40度
The people collectively remembered

列宁格勒的人们一起想到
that some wallpaper paste was made from potatoes.

有些墙纸的裱糊是用土豆制成的
Wallpaper was stripped away from

列宁格勒里起居室和客厅里的
the living rooms and parlors of Leningrad,

墙纸被剥离墙上的裱糊被刮离
the paste scraped into pots and boiled into soup,

然后被扔进锅里熬成汤
a soup that tasted much more like paste then potatoes.

那汤尝起来像是浆糊而不是土豆
Leather too could be boiled into a gelatinous mess

皮革制品也被煮成恶心的胶状物
that could briefly satisfy the sharpest pangs of hunger.

可以暂时减缓一阵阵难熬的饥饿感