A young British woman had shortly arrived in Hong Kong and had not yet learned anything about the Chinese culture.
One day she went to the home of a Chinese friend and was immediately given a cup of Chinese tea. She was not 1 and she also found this type of tea rather 2. However, since she had been given the tea, she felt she should drink it. Hoping to finish it 3 so that she would not feel about having to drink this tea which she did not 4, she started to drink as much of it as she could. But as soon as her cup became half-full, the host insisted on giving her more. Several times she told the host that she had had 5, but it seemed to have no6. Her cup kept being 7, and she kept on drinking.
During the time of her 8, she drank about twelve cups of tea. Later she found out that she should have just left the tea, and that this would have meant that she had had enough. Influenced by her 9 culture, she felt it too 10 to leave the tea and could not understand why the host took no notice of her protests (抗议) that she had had enough!
