三生皆缘
故事是这样的:汤普森太太是一位小学五年级的老师,在他执教的第二年班上来了一位叫泰迪的学生,他第一眼看到这位学生就不喜欢他。泰迪不但肮脏,头发留得长长的盖住眼睛,而且身上还不时散发出一股莫名的臭味。功课呢?总是落后。她试了又试,怎么也不喜欢泰迪,对班上反应快的学生,她尽量鼓励,对于像泰迪这样跟不上的学生,每次批改他作业时,总是用一支大大的红笔,心态乖张的将泰迪的错误,狠狠的划了一圈又一圈 。随着时间过去,红圈圈有增无减,而且圈圈越画越粗。虽然汤普森太太没有直言明讲他厌恶泰迪,但是从其它同学对泰迪的嘲笑和轻视中,却充份反映出老师对泰迪的憎恶。可怜的小泰迪只知道老师不喜欢他,却不明白为什么老师不喜欢他?汤普森太太不曾花过心思甚至试着去了解泰迪,她只知道自己内心深处潜藏着对这个无人照管、无人理会的肮脏一份强烈的恨意,这份恨意连她自己都说不出原因。时间飞快的溜过,转眼已到圣诞节,依照习俗,所有的学生都会准备一份圣诞礼物送给老师。这一天是放假前最后一天上课,班上同学将所有包装好的礼物聚成一堆,放在教室内的一棵小圣诞树下,等待汤普森太太来打开。她每打开一件礼物时,都有无数惊讶、欢喜的尖叫声伴随着这些送礼的孩童,和来自她自己充满激动的谢谢声。泰迪的礼物夹在礼物堆的中央,他是用普通装中饭三明治用的褐色纸包装起来的,纸袋上画有一棵圣诞树,树上用无数的小红球围绕着,这些小球又用一些强力黏纸黏起来,上面还写着这是学生泰迪送给汤普森太太的字样。当汤普森太太拿起这纸袋时,顿时全班肃静无声,默默地注视着汤普森太太。她生平第一次感到异常羞愧,所有学生都站立着等她打开礼物。在撕开最后一片黏纸的同时,忽然有两件东西掉落桌上,一是一个缺了几颗细小钻石的人造水晶钻石手镯,另一件是在廉价店买的只剩半瓶的香水。汤普森太太很清晰的听到来自孩童群中细声耳语、窃窃偷笑的声音,她提不起勇气往泰迪站的方向看去。她勉强的将手镯戴上,挤出一、二滴香水擦在耳后,缓缓的将剩下礼物一一打开。就在此时,下课钟响了起来,她望着学生,道声圣诞快乐,明年见。泰迪没有马上离开,他等所有学生都离去时,手中捧着几本书,畏畏缩缩的走向汤普森太太身旁,轻轻的说:“你身上的香水味就像当年母亲身上的气味一样,她的手镯带在你手腕上真是漂亮,我很高兴你喜欢它。”说完,一溜烟的飞奔出教室。汤普森太太再也忍不住了,她把自己反锁在教室里,坐下来痛哭了一场,身为老师,在过去的数月里,她故意的剥夺一个幼小孩童所应得的关心和照顾。次年开学,她为了弥补良心上的亏欠,在每一天放学后留下来帮泰迪补习功课,直到学期终了。渐渐的泰迪功课赶上班上其它同学,不需要留级重读五年级。但事与愿违,泰迪在新学年开学前要随父亲搬到外州,所幸汤普森太太认为泰迪的学业成绩已经达到某一个稳定的程度,他已有能力去应付未来任何学科的挑战。七年后的某一天,汤普森太太收到泰迪的第一封信,信上只有简单两句话:“亲爱的汤普森太太,我只是希望让您知道,你是第一个知道我在下个月将以第二名的成绩毕业。”汤普森太太寄了一张贺卡,随卡附上一个小包裹,内附一枝铅笔和一支钢笔当礼物。四年后,泰迪的第二封信又来了,信上仍只有简单的三句话:“亲爱的汤普森太太,我希望让您第一个知道,大学当局刚通知我,我将以班上总成绩第一名毕业。四年大学不容易念,但我还是念完了。”汤普森太太寄了一张卡片,附带一个衬衣袖口上用的链扣当礼物寄给泰迪。时间飞逝,转眼泰迪的第三封信来了。“亲爱的汤普森太太,我希望您是第一个知道的人。从今天开始,我就是泰迪医生了,您觉得如何?我将在七月二十七日结婚,我想请您来参加我的婚礼,坐在我母亲该坐的地方-假如她今天还活的话。我已经没有亲人了,父亲去年离世了。您的学生泰迪上。”汤普森太太手中拿着这封信半晌不能言语,不知道该送这位学生医生什么样的礼物?她迫不及待的拿起笔来,立刻写了一封信给泰迪。“亲爱的泰迪,恭喜您,您终于成功了,您的成功完全是靠您自己的努力。尽管您的身边有无数像我和其它未曾悉心照顾您的人,您还是成功了,这成功的一天是属于您的。愿上帝祝福您,当教堂的钟声响起时,我会按时前往参加您的婚礼。老师汤普森太太上。”这是一个“丑小鸭”的故事。小泰迪,成绩落后,衣服肮脏,头发长长,还散发着臭味。对于这样的“丑小鸭”,汤普森太太开始有点本能的厌恶。不知情的小泰迪却渴望接近她,并在内心深处视她为母亲般的人物。庆幸的是汤普森太太尽管有道不明的恨意,但最终敏感地意识到泰迪需要她的关怀,通过痛苦的反思,意识到自己对一个弱小生命的偏见和歧视,她的良心受到震撼,并且主动弥补了自己的过错。这个故事引人深思,每位教师和父母都应对自己的言行进行深刻地反思。在我们的视野里可能就有泰迪这样的“丑小鸭”,他们或是调皮淘气,或是反应迟钝,他们不时地给我们制造麻烦,让我们难堪,令我们厌恶,但要知道,只要我们关爱他们,他们都可能变成美丽的“白天鹅”!

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The teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear for small children. It is an enduring, traditional form of stuffed animal, often serving the purpose of comforting upset children. In recent times, some teddy bears have become expensive collector's items. Teddy bear collectors are known as arctophiles from the Greek words 'arcto' (bear) and 'philos' (lover). The world's first Teddy Bear Museum was set up in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, in 1984. In 1990 a similar foundation was set up in Naples, Florida.NamingTheodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy", enjoyed big game-hunting. According to legend, the teddy bear received its birth at Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. To cheer Theodore Roosevelt after an unsuccessful day of hunting, Hotel Colorado maids presented him with a stuffed bear pieced together with scraps of fine material. Later, when he did bag a bear, his daughter Alice admired it saying, "I will call it Teddy." The term caught on.According to another legend, the name is said to come from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, when Roosevelt's attendants found and caught an old injured bear. Roosevelt refused to kill the lassoed animal, calling it "unsportsmanlike", and "Teddy's Bear" was immediately publicized by political cartoonists, taking journalistic licence and changing it to a young cute bear. The first such cartoon appeared the following day, November 16: Clifford Berryman, an editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, immortalized the incident as part of a front-page cartoon montage. Berryman pictured Roosevelt with his gun beside him with the butt resting on the ground and his back to the bear, gesturing his refusal to take the trophy shot. Written across the lower part of the cartoon were the words "Drawing the Line in Mississippi," which coupled the hunting incident to a political dispute .ProducersMorris Michtom and his wife Rose displayed two stuffed bears in the window of their Brooklyn store shortly thereafter (February 15, 1903), and said they had received President Roosevelt's written permission to call them "Teddy's bears".German toy maker Margarete Steiff had started to produce stuffed toy animals in 1880; the first one was a little elephant. Her nephew Richard Steiff convinced her to produce a toy bear cub in 1902. It was not very popular in the German Empire, but at the March 1903 Leipzig Toy Fair they were able to sell a shipment of 3,000 to an American merchant. Michtom's bear had a more endearing, baby-faced appearance, while Steiff's more closely resembled a real bear cub. The Steiff company continues to produce teddy bears in modern Germany for worldwide export.The Dakin Company and Applause are two American companies based in California known for production of large volume and high quality plush bears.Some Teddy bears are intended for children to play with. Others, for adults, are referred to as "collector items" or "Designer bears". The first type is usually an unjointed bear where arms, head and legs are stitched to the body. The other type, for adults, are almost always fully jointed, which means that the arms legs and heads are movable by being attached with disks and cotter pins.Fictional teddy bearsNotable fictional teddy bears include* Paddington Bear* Winnie the Pooh* Radar O'Reilly's unnamed teddy on M*A*S*H* Big Bird's teddy bear, Radar, on Sesame Street.* Bobo, Mr. Burns' childhood teddy on The Simpsons.* Shmee, the teddy bear that speaks to his owner Squee in Jhonen Vasquez's comics* Lord Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear, Aloysius, in Brideshead Revisited.* Amy, Lulu and Morgan, the teddies from Bananas in Pyjamas.* Teddy Ruxpin* Mr. Bear, teddy of Stephanie Tanner, on Full House.* Mr. Bean's Teddy.* Kukalaka, Julian Bashir's teddy bear.* Pookie, the teddy bear belonging to Garfield, the famous cartoon cat.* Rupert, Stewie's teddy bear on Family Guy.* SuperTed* Roadpook* Teddy, the robotic 'supertoy' teddy bear from the film A.I.* Mike O'Malley's Lost Bear At Age 24* Eddie, the hard-boiled detective's sidekick in Robert Rankin's book The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse* "Teddy Bear" was the CB handle for a fatherless, wheelchair-bound boy in country singer Red Sovine's song of the same name. The song, wherein Teddy Bear wants to ride around with truckers, just as he dreamed of doing with his own truck-driving father (who is deceased), was a major country hit in 1976.* Roger, a teddy bear/weapon used by Bridget in the Guilty Gear series.
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泰迪熊(英语:Teddy bear),是一种熊外型历史悠久的填充毛绒玩具,常被用来安慰儿童的难过情绪,由莫里斯‧米奇汤姆发明,得名于美国总统西奥多·“泰迪”·罗斯福。
泰迪熊以西奥多·罗斯福(俗称老罗斯福)命名,因为老罗斯福的昵称就是泰迪,并且他很喜欢狩猎。
据说泰迪熊的名字源于老罗斯福1902年在密西西比州一次猎熊。当时助手发现并捆绑了一只路易斯安那小黑熊,请老罗斯福射击。
老罗斯福不但断然拒绝枪杀这只被捆绑的小熊,并且还称之为“无体育道德的',随后一个政治漫画家迅速出版漫画《泰迪熊》(Teddy's Bear)。
第一部漫画在第二天即11月6日便出现了。克利福德·K·贝里曼(Clifford K. Berryman),一位《华盛顿邮报》的漫画编辑,以头版漫画的形式记录了这件事。
贝里曼画的是小熊坐在地上,罗斯福拿着枪,背对着小熊,做着拒绝杀死猎物的手势。画面的下方写着“在密西西比州划界”(Drawing the Line in Mississippi),把打猎逸事同政治争论联系起来
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严格来说,我们一般常见的毛绒熊玩具,并不能算是真正的泰迪熊。
如同车子具有不同外型、规格、厂牌一样,毛绒熊也有各种不同的品牌、风格、外貌,甚至设计师,没有办法以泰迪熊来代表所有的熊熊,然而由于泰迪熊实在被应用得太广泛了,人们往往便将所有的毛绒玩具熊统称为泰迪熊。
其实早在泰迪熊出现之前,毛绒玩具熊就已经存在了。虽然,还没有直接的证据可以证明玩具熊最早的发明始末和来源,不过,早在十九世纪末,就已经有玩具熊的踪迹出现。
1880年,柏林当地最受欢迎的玩具就是一只站在四轮上的木制熊(on all fours是一种可以拉着四处走的玩具车),同一时期,在莫斯科当地的酒吧,也流行一种由自动发条制造的饮酒熊,这种会自动饮酒的玩具熊,在当时非常新奇和受欢迎。
现在最著名的玩具熊制造公司史泰福(Steiff)在1893年时,也曾经制作过一些直立式、鼻子上嵌有铁链的非布偶熊玩具,不过这些还未经过这一百多年时间洗礼的玩具熊,是以写实的形象出现的,
不但在视觉上比较逼真,在触觉上也较为沉重和坚硬,要发展所认知的四肢可转动的毛绒熊模样,还要经过长久的许多材质、填充物和外型的演变。
其实泰迪熊原本是一个独立的专有名词,最正确的说法,应该只有在第一次世界大战之前,也就是老罗斯福总统任内时,于1903年至1912年间制造的熊,才能称为泰迪熊。
1903年出生的泰迪熊,源自于罗斯福总统对熊熊的爱好和当时的流行,可以说是毛绒熊的老祖先。它有着浑圆丰满的身材和四肢,蓬松温厚的安哥拉羊毛,简素的材料和绣线,憨厚的表情,以及百分之百的手工缝制和填塞作业。
不论是出自于美国或是欧洲,那些历经古老岁月留下的精神,直至今日仍然存在。
不过这种真正的泰迪熊,甚至所谓古董熊,已不多见了,只有在书籍、博物馆,或收藏者的家中,我们才有缘一窥它们的真面目。
然而,这些不再回返的泰迪熊,复古风潮和历史忆怀,以及拍卖和收藏家保值观念的催生下,已经再度复生,出现了厂商重新开模制造,仿制当时风采的复制熊,或是特意模仿老旧年华的复古熊玩具。
参考资料来源:百度百科-泰迪熊
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泰迪熊(英文:Teddy Bear),中文翻译为泰迪熊,按照美国当地的说法应该称为罗斯福熊。是用于儿童玩耍的填充玩具熊。它是一种历史悠久的毛绒玩具,常常被用来安慰孩子们的难过情绪的。近年来一些泰迪熊变成了昂贵的收藏品。