Instead, they would offer these table scraps to the enslaved communities.

相反，他们会把这些奶酪残渣提供给被奴役的社区。

My shoats had outgrown the table scraps.

我的芽长得比餐桌上的残羹剩饭还长。

But by the late Pleistocene, when we showed up, the foxes had switched to a diet of mainly reindeer and horse meat-that is, human table scraps.

但到了更新世晚期，当我们人类出现时，狐狸的饮食已转为以驯鹿和马肉为主，也就是人类餐桌的残余食物。

Now the genius enslaved workers would then peel off the wax, soak the hardened rinds in water to soften, create a filling made from other leftover table scraps.

被奴役的天才工人们会剥去蜡，把变硬的外皮泡在水里软化，用其他吃剩的桌上剩菜做成馅料。

This could explain why our cats are extra snuggly: the ones that got along best with humans could take advantage of our rodent pests and table scraps, and survived to pass on their genes.

这些可以解释为什么我们的猫格外贴近人类，与人类相处愉快有利于捕捉老鼠，吃剩下的饭，生存至今，传递着他们的基因。