晨讀英語美文 Please Have a Cup of Tea

Please Have a Cup of Tea

[00:06.13]Please have a cup of tea,?

[00:08.70]I wish I could invite you at the moment.

[00:11.83]You know, when chat over a cup of tea with friends,?

[00:16.32]I often imagine boundless?

[00:19.28]and try to collect in mind all words,?

[00:22.47]expressions in eyes and smile of friends?

[00:26.37]as though the meeting will never return after saying goodbye.?

[00:30.96]On tea ceremony, I love the parlance a meeting in a lifetime,?

[00:36.70]which seemly means that one should feel grateful?

[00:40.17]for every time with friends to drink tea together?

[00:43.87]because it might allow no what-ifs,?

[00:46.68]and there would be no going back to the beginning.

[00:51.36] As you can see, how rare, how grave?

[00:55.21]and how nice the only meeting is to us!?

[01:00.03]Many people often think that life is capricious and fate is hard,?

[01:05.35]so everyone is pursuing happiness and joyfulness.?

[01:09.12]Where is joyfulness??

[01:11.81]One is to meet bosom friends again.?

[01:14.98]Judging from this, how many roads must we run?

[01:19.06]and toil down with hardships?

[01:21.37]and full of frustrations?

[01:23.05]before the meeting calls us together??

[01:25.82]Yet, the meeting that touches our hearts?

[01:29.15]becomes the story of our forty,

[01:32.43]the smiling that warms our hearts

[01:34.98] becomes the flower of our pleasure,?

[01:37.69]angry, sorrow and joy,

[01:41.31]the silence that inspires our hearts?

[01:43.96]becomes the accomplishment of all our words,?

[01:47.03]significant or vaguely conscious.

[01:50.80]Here is just a cup of tea and please enjoy it carefully?

[01:56.15]because it has drawn the essence of tea trees?

[01:58.88]to be created by the sun and the earth.