Space and a lack of culinary room in the mission - house , compelled an arrangement which permitted of only twenty - five or thirty eating at one time , so that a line had to be formed outside and an orderly entrance effected . this caused a daily spectacle which , however , had become so common by repetition during a number of years that now nothing was thought of it 慈善所因地方狹窄,廚房也不夠用,不得不安排分批吃飯,每次只能容許二十五至三十人就餐,所以就得在外面排隊(duì)并按順序進(jìn)去,這就使得每天都出現(xiàn)這么一個(gè)奇觀,但幾年來(lái)日復(fù)一日,人們對(duì)此已司空見慣,如今也就不以為奇了。