怎么说呢，书看的五味杂陈的。。。。

聊天时谈到的意面派对的原材料用量，找到了原文： The numbers for the pre-race pasta party, held the evening before the Boston Marathon and so large that it takes several seatings on the Government Center grounds of Boston City Hall, are equally staggering: 11,300 pounds of pasta, nearly three thousand quarts of tomato sauce, 3,400 pounds of fresh vegetables, seventeen thousand cups of coffee and tea, thirty-five thousand gallons of water, 140 wait staff and chefs, and more than five thousand hours of prep work and cooking.

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