Most of the time, you are a foreign businessman, you don't want to offend your Chinese host by notating the most expensive dish ordered.
多数时候，这种事情发生在外国商人身上：他们不想因为拒绝享用最贵的食物而得罪了中国的东道主。
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It was less than 100, 000 years ago that our human predecessors first made meaningful marks on surfaces, notating the phases of the moon or drawing animals on cave walls.