This Thursday, across the US, kids are going to work with their parents instead of going to school.

本周四，美国各地的孩子们将和父母一起工作，而不是去上学。

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Instead of going to school, he stayed at home.

他没有上学，而是留在了家中。

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He went to the cinema instead of going to school.

他去了电影院而不是学校。

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We sat there all afternoon fishing instead of going to school.

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She hid the dog under her coat on the school bus, and then, instead of going straight to school, she took Blitzee back to our old house in town, which was less than a block away.

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