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
By 1943 the siege entered its second year,

1943年围城进入第二年
all the animals, wallpaper paste, and leather had been consumed.

所有的动物墙纸裱糊和皮革都被吃完
The people descended into a rare kind of hunger,

人们陷入到一种很深程度的饥饿中