高老师教了我们三年中文。
Gāo lǎoshī jiāo le wǒmen sān nián Zhōngwén.
Teacher Gao had taught us Chinese for three years.
下个月她就要退休了，以后不教课了。
Xià gè yuè tā jiù yào tuìxiū le, yǐhòu bù jiāo kè le.
She was going to retire next month and would not teach anymore.
班长说，我们应该一起送她一件礼物。
Bān cháng shuō, wǒmen yīnggāi yìqǐ sòng tā yí jiàn lǐwù.
The class monitor said we should give her a gift together.
大家把自己的零花钱放在一起，一共有两百块。
Dàjiā bǎ zìjǐ de línghuāqián fàng zài yìqǐ, yígòng yǒu liǎng bǎi kuài.
Everyone pooled their pocket money, two hundred yuan in all.
有人说买一条围巾，冬天老师上课冷。
Yǒu rén shuō mǎi yì tiáo wéijīn, dōngtiān lǎoshī shàngkè lěng.
Some said buy a scarf, because the classroom was cold in winter.
有人说买一个好杯子，老师总喝凉水。
Yǒu rén shuō mǎi yí gè hǎo bēizi, lǎoshī zǒng hē liáng shuǐ.
Some said buy a good cup, since the teacher always drank cold water.
还有人说买茶叶，可是两百块买不到好的。
Hái yǒu rén shuō mǎi cháyè, kěshì liǎng bǎi kuài mǎi bú dào hǎo de.
Others said buy tea, but two hundred yuan could not get anything good.
商量了一个中午，谁也说服不了谁。
Shāngliang le yí gè zhōngwǔ, shéi yě shuōfú bù le shéi.
We discussed for a whole lunch break and nobody could persuade anyone.
我想了想，说了一个自己的主意。
Wǒ xiǎng le xiǎng, shuō le yí gè zìjǐ de zhǔyi.
I thought for a while and offered an idea of my own.
我说，钱不多，可是我们有三十个人。
Wǒ shuō, qián bù duō, kěshì wǒmen yǒu sān shí gèrén.
I said we did not have much money, but there were thirty of us.
每个人写一句最有用的句子，那句是老师说的。
Měi gèrén xiě yí jù zuì yǒuyòng de jùzi, nà jù shì lǎoshī shuō de.
Each person would write the most useful sentence the teacher had ever said to them.
我们把这些纸放进一个小本子里，就是礼物。
Wǒmen bǎ zhèxiē zhǐ fàng jìn yí gè xiǎo běnzi lǐ, jiùshì lǐwù.
We would put the papers into a small notebook, and that would be the gift.
教室里安静了一下，然后大家都说好。
Jiàoshì lǐ ānjìng le yíxià, ránhòu dàjiā dōu shuō hǎo.
The classroom went quiet for a moment, and then everyone said it was a good idea.
那个下午，每个人都写得很认真。
Nàge xiàwǔ, měi gèrén dōu xiě de hěn rènzhēn.
That afternoon everyone wrote very carefully.
有人写：老师说过，说错比不说好。
Yǒu rén xiě: lǎoshī shuō guò, shuō cuò bǐ bù shuō hǎo.
One wrote: the teacher said making mistakes is better than saying nothing.
有人写：老师说过，汉字写一百遍就认识了。
Yǒu rén xiě: lǎoshī shuō guò, Hànzì xiě yī bǎi biàn jiù rènshi le.
One wrote: the teacher said a character is learned after you write it a hundred times.
我写的是开学那天她说的：你们慢慢来。
Wǒ xiě de shì kāixué nà tiān tā shuō de: nǐmen màn màn lái.
Mine was what she said on the first day of school: take your time.
最后一天上课，班长把本子送给了老师。
Zuìhòu yì tiānshàng kè, bān cháng bǎ běnzi sòng gěi le lǎoshī.
On her last day of class, the class monitor gave the notebook to the teacher.
她一页一页地看，看得特别慢。
Tā yí yè yí yè de kàn, kàn de tèbié màn.
She read it page by page, very slowly.
看到一半，她摘下眼镜，眼睛红了。
Kàn dào yíbàn, tā zhāi xià yǎnjìng, yǎnjing hóng le.
Halfway through, she took off her glasses, her eyes red.
然后她打开讲台下面的柜子，拿出一个旧盒子。
Ránhòu tā dǎkāi jiǎng tái xiàmiàn de guìzi, ná chū yí gè jiù hézi.
Then she opened the cabinet under the lectern and took out an old box.
盒子里全是纸，从三十年前到现在的都有。
Hézi lǐ quán shì zhǐ, cóng sān shí nián qián dào xiànzài de dōu yǒu.
The box was full of papers, from thirty years ago until now.
她把我们的小本子放了进去，说：这是最重的一份。
Tā bǎ wǒmen de xiǎo běnzi fàng le jìnqù, shuō: zhè shì zuì zhòng de yí fèn.
She put our notebook in and said: this is the heaviest one of all.
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