现代大学英语阅读1 27 Let me Read you tea leaves.pptVIP

Let Me Read Your Tea-Leaves Background: Fortune-telling Tea-reading or coffee-reading(Tasseography): After a cup of tea has been poured and the tea is drunk or poured away, The fortune teller looks at the pattern of tea leaves in the cup and allows the imagination to play around the shapes suggested by them. They might look like a letter, a heart shape, or a ring. These shapes are then interpreted intuitively or by means of a fairly standard system of?symbolism. Background: Fortune-telling snake (enmity or falsehood) spade (good fortune through industry) mountain (journey of hindran