英语美文：茶杯的故事
时间：2012-12-17 05:49:39
（单词翻译:单击）
A couple often went shopping together. They both liked teacups. One day they saw a beautiful teacup in a store. As they picked it up, it suddenly spoke1.
"I haven’t always been a teacup. Once I was red earth. My master rolled me over and over and I shouted, but he only smiled."
"Then I was placed on a rolling wheel and suddenly I went around and around. 'Stop!’I cried, but the master only nodded."
"Then he put me in the
oven2*. I had never felt so hot. I could see him through the opening and I could read his
lips3, 'Not yet.’"
"Finally the door opened, and he took me out and put on a shelf. Then he brushed me and put back into the oven. This time it was twice as hot. I begged. I cried. I could see him through the opening, nodding his head, saying, 'Not yet.’"
"Then I knew there wasn’t any hope. I was ready to give up, but the door opened and I was taken out and placed on a shelf. Later he handed me a mirror and said, 'Look at yourself.’I said, 'That can’t be me. It’s beautiful!’"
"'I want you to remember,’he said, 'if I had just left you without rolling, you’d have dried up. If I had stopped rolling you around on the wheel, you would have been
crushed4. If I hadn’t put you in the oven, you would have broken. If I hadn’t brushed you all over, you would not have any color in your life, and if I hadn’t put you back in that second oven, you wouldn’t survive for very long, because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first started with you.’"
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