他们聚集在市政厅前面。

They massed in front of the city hall.

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一大群人聚集在市政厅的大钟下面。

A large crowd of people and had gathered under the Town Hall clock.

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我们过去常聚集在市政厅的大钟下面迎新年。

In the past, we used to gather under the Town Hall clock to welcome the New Year.

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Interestingly enough, ten years ago somebody found photos taken by this Parisian of the siege in the Commune in the back of the Hotel de Ville; they were found ten years ago, they had survived.

令人颇感惊奇的是,在十年前,有人发现了由巴黎人所拍的,公社在市政厅后被围的一些相片,它们于十年前被发现,居然得以留存完好

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Goncourt, one of the writers, the Goncourts, the one who hadn't died yet, was no friend of ordinary people, but there's an amazing scene in his memoirs when he's down by the Hotel de Ville and he sees these women chained together, being walked around, and he says, "What, where are they going?"

龚古尔,龚古尔两兄弟都是作家,当时还活着的那一个,和平头百姓从来合不来,但在他的回忆录里有这样惊人的一幕,他路过市政厅的时候,看见一些被锁链串成一列的妇女们,正在被游街,他就问,"怎么,她们这是要去哪"

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