three cups of tea 三杯茶的英文介绍

• The main character is the mountain hiker Greg Mortenson who climbed K2, the world’s second highest mountain, in the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. • He was planning to lay his deceased sister Christa’s amber necklace on the summit of K2. • After more than 70 days on the mountain, Greg and three other climbers had their ascent interrupted by the need to complete a 75-hour life-saving rescue of a fifth climber. • After getting lost during his descent, he became weak and exhausted, and by chance alone. He came across Korphe, a small village built on a shelf jutting out from a canyon. • He was greeted and taken in by the chief elder of Korphe, Haji Ali. And he was taken care of by people there.
Tahira
:Hussein the teacher’s daughter, one of Korphe’s School’s first female graduates who received a scholarship to continue her education after she graduated from the Korphe School. • Afterwards, she planned to return to Korphe and teach alongside her father so that other girls would have an opportunity to receive education like her.
Jahan :Twaha’s daughter, Haji Ali’s granddaughter,
who had been one of the Korphe School’s best students was one of the CAI’s first scholarship students and went on to study medicine. Jahan had come to Skardu planning to become a simple health worker and then returned to work in Korphe. But now she modified and enlarged her plans. She wanted to be such a woman that she could start a hospital and be an executive, and look over the health problems of all the women in the Braldu valley. She wanted to become a very famous woman of this area. Education changed the lives of the two girls.
• To repay the remote community for its hospitality, Mortenson promised to build a school for the village. But he never thought he had to pay such a big price to make his promise. And he also never knew that his life totally changed which he chose a harder and more complicated life.
• Building the schools requires a number of sacrifices from Mortenson and from the local villagers involved. When Mortenson begins his Korphe project, he sells all his possessions—including cherished books and his grandmother’s car. • Even after becoming successful, Mortenson continues to make sacrifices, taking as little money as possible from the CAI and leaving his family alone for months at a time.
• Formerly, schooling focused on the boys, but educated boys tend to move to the cities to find jobs, and seldom return. • By contrast, educated girls tend to remain in the community and pass their enhanced knowledge to the next generation. • Thus, Mortenson suggested that educating girls has more of a lasting benefit for the community. • He suffered the sorrow, depression, loneliness, and almost death, but he never forgot his promise. He was willing to devote his life to dissolve the biggest enmity in the world.
• Of the sacrifices offered by the local villagers, the most dramatic is Haji Ali’s decision to give twelve rams (half of the village’s wealth) as a bribe to a neighboring chief so construction of the school can proceed in Korphe. • As Haji Ali puts it, the children of Korphe will have their education far longer than the rams would have lasted. And that’s the value of what he is doing.
Haji Ali
ຫໍສະໝຸດ Baidu
• By building the school, Mortenson and Haji Ali planted seeds in the hearts of these girls and now the seeds had borne fruit. • For such a result, Mortenson thought, Five hundred and eighty letters, twelve rams, and ten years of work was a small price to pay.
• The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger.
• The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. • The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything —even die.