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A: 听说大个子被抓起来了。
Nghe nói To con bị tóm rồi. 
I heard Big Guy got arrested. 

B: 是吗？怎么回事？
Thật à?Có chuyện gì thế?
Really? What happened? 

A: 为朋友出头。他有个朋友，被老板开除了，而且一分钱薪水也没拿到。结果大个子就把人家的车给砸(gěi zá)了，还把还把人家打得鼻青脸肿的(bíqīngliǎnzhǒng)。
Vì ra mặt cho 1 người bạn.Cậu ta có 1 người bạn bị ông chủ đuổi việc,hơn nữa cũng chưa lấy được tiền lương. Kết quả là Ton con liền đập nát xe của hắn ta còn đánh hắn mặt mũi bầm dập nữa chứ.
He was helping out a friend. He has a friend who was fired by his boss. And he didn't get a penny of his salary. And so Big Guy smashed up the guy's car and beat him to a pulp. 

TOTTO-CHAN The Little Girl at the Window (3/3)

The Hair Ribbon

One day at lunch break, after the children had finished eating, Totto-chan was skipping across the Assembly Hall when she met the headmaster. It is perhaps odd

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to say she met the headmaster when he had been with them all through lunch, but she met him because he was coming from the opposite direction.

"Oh, there you are," said the headmaster. "I've been wanting to ask you something."

"What is it?" asked Totto-chan, delighted to think she could give the headmaster some information.

"Where did you get that ribbon?" he asked, looking at the bow she had in her hair.

TOTTO-CHAN The Little Girl at the Window (2/3)

Eurythmics

After summer vacation was over, the second semester began, for in Japan the school year starts in April. In addition to the children in her own class, Totto-chan had made friends with all the older boys and girls, thanks to the various gatherings during summer vacation. And she grew to like Tomoe Gakuen even more.

Besides the fact that classes at Tomoe were different from those at ordinary schools, a great deal more time was devoted to music. There were all sorts of music lessons, which included a daily period of eurythmics--a special kind of rhythmic education devised by a Swiss music teacher and composer, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze. His studies first became known about 1904. His system was rapidly adopted all over Europe and

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America and training and research institutes sprang up everywhere. Here is the story of how Dalcroze's eurhythmics came to be adopted at Tomoe.

Before starting Tomoe Gakuen, the headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi, went to Europe to see how children were being educated abroad. He visited a great many elementary schools and talked to educators. In Paris, he met Dalcroze, a fine composer as well as an educator.

Dalcroze had spent a long rime wondering how children could be taught to hear and feel music in their minds lather than just with their ears; how to make them feel music as a thing of movement rather than a dull, lifeless subject; how to awaken a child's sensitivity.

Eventually, after watching the way children jumped and skipped and romped about, he hit on the idea of creating rhythmic exercises, which he called eurythmics.

TOTTO-CHAN The Little Girl at the Window (1/3)

  

   TOTTO-CHAN - The Little Girl at the Window

By Tetsuko Kuroyanagi - Translated by Dorothy Britton

The Railroad Station

They got off the Oimachi train at Jiyugaoka Station, and Mother took Totto-chan by the hand to lead her through the ticket gate. She had hardly ever been on a train before and was reluctant to give up the precious ticket she was clutching.

“May 1 keep it!” Totto-chan asked the ticket collector.

“No, you can't,” he replied, taking it from her.

She pointed to his box filled with tickets. "Are those all yours!"

“No, they belong to the railroad station,” he replied, as he snatched away tickets from people going out.

“Oh.” Totto-chan gazed longingly into the box and went on, “When I grow up I'm going to sell railroad tickets!”

The ticket collector glanced at her for the first time. “My little boy wants a job in the station, too, so you can work together.”