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The Japanese tea ceremony sounds wonderful, but utterly removed from normal daily life.

It's exotic, perfect and noble, while we are condemned to scamper about from one lowly and dreary task to another.

But this is the opposite of the therapeutic lesson Kakuzo Okakura, the author of The Book of Tea, is longing to impart to us.

Because as he sees it, anything can be, as it were, tea.

Okakura was born in Yokohama in 1862, less than a decade after the Japanese elite elected to reconnect with the West after centuries of seclusion.

Okakura was an accomplished student at the newly established Tokyo University

and was quickly appointed a curator at the recently founded Imperial Museum of the Arts.

In 1904, when Okakura was in his early 40s, he moved to the US to take up a post at the Boston Museum of Fine Art.

He loved socialising but was saddened by how his otherwise cultivated friends misunderstood Japanese art and philosophy,

which he saw as intimately linked.

And so he quickly wrote in English and published in 1906 an extremely charming little book

to explain what he saw as a central concern of Japanese culture.

The secret and fascination, as he often heard it called,

of the tea ceremony turns out to have little or nothing to do with tea itself in his eyes.

It's not a way of revering a special beverage.

It's almost irrelevant that the ceremony involves a hot drink.

What matters for Okakura are the rituals that happen to grow up around tea drinking.

But actually, any simple thing could become the focus for endless meaning and focus.

One waits patiently as the water boils, notices the wisps of steam and appreciates the implements and the sounds.

The ceremony, as Okakura describes it, is calm, people are served according to a special order.

The room in which it takes place is small, almost humble, but tranquil and spotlessly clean.

But ultimately it's It's an attitude that Okakura wants to convey.

What he is in love with and wants to make us fall in love with in turn is a sensitivity to detail, a liking for solid, well-made,

everyday things, an avoidance of complexity or haste, a devotion to a moment in time.

But the same attitude could be cultivated in other areas.

Flowers can be arranged in the same spirit.

One can notice each stem, care about the spaces between them, take time to appreciate them and concentrate solely on their silent loveliness.

But again, this is not because flowers are special.

What's special is the way something is done, thoughtfully, beautifully, simply, and without a sense of what will come next.

One is concentrated on now, rather than preoccupied with what may or may not happen in the future.

What Okakura wants us to take away is that more or less anything can be done in this spirit.

One could have a tea ceremony-like approach to driving or cooking, or indeed to brushing one's teeth, pushing exactly the ideal amount of paste out of the tube,

learning to appreciate perhaps a slightly granular texture or silky consistency, holding the brush neither too stiffly nor too loosely,

conscious of the intricate sensations, aware that this moment is now and that now is part of forever.

It's never an activity in itself that is either banal or spiritual.

This is Okakura's enduring lesson of his Book of Tea.

It's only our approach, our way of doing it, that makes something either special or trivial.

We should, with Okakura as our guide, learn to re-find the magic in the ordinary.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“The Book of Tea”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：Okakura, tea, ceremony, Japanese, appreciate。這段影片共有 38 個句子、604 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 3:55。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 155 個詞，接近日常對話。只有 80% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
cultivate 動詞	/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/	耕種 /耕種, 種植 /種植
concentrate 動詞	/ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/	集中
fascination 名詞	/fæsɪˈneɪʃən/	魅惑
misunderstand 動詞	/mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/	誤會 /誤會, 誤解 /誤解
revere 動詞	/ɹɪˈvɪə(ɹ)/	敬畏
scamper 動詞	/ˈskæmpɚ/	跑來跑去 /跑來跑去
seclusion 名詞	/səˈkluːʒən/	隔絕 /隔絕, 隔離 /隔離
stiffly 副詞	/ˈstɪfli/	呆板地, 笨拙地
intricate 形容詞	/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/	複雜的 /複雜的
curator 名詞	/kjʊəˈɹeɪtə(ɹ)/	館長 /館長, 策展人
trivial 形容詞	/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/	瑣碎 /瑣碎, 瑣細 /瑣細
beverage 名詞	/ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/	飲料 /飲料, 飲品 /飲品
appoint 動詞	/əˈpɔɪnt/	約定 /約定, 預約 /預約
condemn 動詞	/kənˈdɛm/	譴責 /譴責, 斥責 /斥責
devotion 名詞	/dɪˈvoʊʃən/	奉獻 /奉獻

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
grow up 動詞	長大 /長大

需要注意的發音

“th” 音: thoughtfully /ˈθɔtfəli/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: fascination /fæsɪˈneɪʃən/, patiently /ˈpeɪʃəntli/, seclusion /səˈkluːʒən/, devotion /dɪˈvoʊʃən/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: fascination /fæsɪˈneɪʃən/, intimately /ˈɪntɪmətli/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/, beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: cultivate /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/, loveliness /ˈlʌvlinəs/, revere /ɹɪˈvɪə(ɹ)/, avoidance /əˈvɔɪdəns/, trivial /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: cultivate /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/, concentrate /ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/, impart /ɪmˈpɑːt/, loveliness /ˈlʌvlinəs/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: granular /ˈɡɹæn.jə.lə(ɹ)/, tranquil /ˈtɹæŋ.kwɪl/, trivial /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/, irrelevant /ɪˈɹɛləvənt/, ritual /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 cultivate, concentrate, fascination 這類單詞。

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