Although other researchers agree that this is the best early evidence for collective dining, one expert questions whether it was a true feast.

虽然很多研究人员都同意这是最好的早期聚餐的证据，但仍有一位专家对它是否是一个真正的宴会提出了疑问。

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If you go to the dining hall you know, the portions-- one person serves themselves this much of a food and another serves themselves another, and then when you go to a restaurant there are variations on how much you get served of things, and so it's very hard to estimate portions for people.

如果你去食堂,摄入量是指,一个人吃了自己的那部分食物,或其他人吃的他们的那一部分,当你去餐厅,每次吃多少是变化的,因此估算每个人的摄入量是很难的

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