News For Kids

I'm at an arcade! They have lots of driving games! But they make me carsick. 我人在遊樂場，這裡有好多賽車遊戲，但我會暈車。 Look! Over there! They have fighting games! Ugh… they're too scary for me! 還有槍戰遊戲，但我覺得有一點恐怖。 I know! I'm going over there to the claw machines! Do you know what a claw machine is? Taiwan has lots! A claw machine looks like a big glass box. There's always a pr...

I love the beach! Let's swim! Wait! What's all that brown stuff? It smells like bad eggs! 我喜歡海邊，我們去游泳吧！等一下，海灘上那個咖啡色的東西是甚麼？它聞起來好像臭掉的雞蛋。 That brown stuff is seaweed. Seaweed grows in the ocean. Ocean waves push it to the beach. 原來是海帶。海帶生長在海裡，被海浪推到沙灘上。 Some beaches have a lot of smelly seaweed! People don't want to go to those beaches...

Hello from sunny Greece! I'm here on vacation. Today is World Oceans Day, so I'm relaxing at the beach! 今天是世界海洋日，而我正在希臘的海邊逍遙！ The beaches in this country are great. The sand is soft and the sea is beautiful! For me, swimming at the beach is easy. I can just stand up and walk into the sea! 只要站起來，走進海裡，就可以游泳。 But how about people who can't move easily? Sand makes...

Some people like to exercise on their own. Maybe they like jogging, or going to the gym. Some people like to play team sports, like baseball or basketball. They play with their friends on a team. There's a fun new team sport! It's reading! 有一些人喜歡自己去運動，像是慢跑或去健身房。有一些人喜歡團隊運動，像是棒球或籃球。但現在有一種新的團隊運動，就是閱讀！ At some schools, students can make teams....

Ugh… I'm tired of walking. Why did I want to walk home? My legs are very tired. How many kilometers can you walk? One kilometer? Five kilometers? Ten kilometers? 走路回家好累人，我的腳好酸。你們可以連續走幾公里呢？一公里、五公里、還是十公里呢？ How about more than two hundred fifty kilometers? That's a very long walk. But somebody did it. Oh wait! Not somebody… some dog did it. His name is Nanuq....

What does "environment" mean? Go outside. Look around. Lie on the grass. Look at the sky. Our environment is the natural things around us. It is the air, plants, animals, the clouds in the sky… 什麼是環境呢？出去走走，到處看看，躺在草皮上，望向天空。我們的環境就是空氣、植物、動物跟天空中的雲。 The Earth's environment keeps us alive. We have air to breathe. We have water to drink and food to eat....

Narrator: Guys! Listen up! Two kids were arrested! The police put them in jail! The kids were fighting in the street. They were running into each other. They were fighting with their heads! 有兩個小孩在路上用頭互撞的方式打架，被警察逮捕了！ Some people saw the fight. One person said the kids had "been fighting all weekend". 有人說那兩個小孩整個周末都在打架。 Some people were worried. They didn't w...

Happy World Reef Day! The world's most famous coral reef is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It's the world's biggest reef too. 全世界最大的珊瑚礁在澳洲的大堡礁。 Coral reefs are very important for life underwater. Many kinds of fish live in them. They're like apartment buildings for fish! Some people fish there. They sell or eat the fish. 很多魚類住在珊瑚礁裡面，牠們就像魚的公寓。有一些人會捕...

My grandpa watches soccer on TV. But some grandpas in Japan play soccer! 我的阿公會在家裡看足球比賽。但在日本，有一些阿公卻出門踢足球！ Japan has a new soccer league. It's called Soccer For Life. The league has three teams. They are called White Bears, Red Star, and Blue Hawaii. All of the players are 80 years old… and older! 日本有一個新的足球聯盟，叫做「終身足球隊」，聯盟有三支球隊，分別叫做白熊...

Hi everyone. Do you know what eagles are? They're very big and strong birds. Murphy is an eagle. He is 31 years old. He can't fly, so he lives in a place for injured animals. Murphy 是一隻 31 歲的老鷹。牠飛不起來，住在受傷動物收留所。 Murphy wanted to be a dad. He made a nice nest for an egg. He sat on the egg every day. No one could come close. Murphy didn't want the egg to break. Murphy 想要當爸...

Hi there! Have you ever been to a water festival? People throw lots of water. Everyone gets very wet! It sounds like fun! 你參加過潑水節嗎？大家都會全身濕淋淋的，很好玩！ There is a water festival in a country called Myanmar. The festival is called Thingyan. It celebrates Myanmar's New Year. Their New Year is in April. 緬甸的潑水節在四月舉辦，叫做 Thingyan，是緬甸的新年。 Many people from Myanmar...

Hey! Do you hear that? That's the sound of too many rats! Wild rats are mean! They fight other animals. They eat trash. They run in very dirty water… which means they carry lots of germs and diseases. They're dangerous, they can make you very sick. Stay away from wild rats! 野生老鼠會咬垃圾，在下水道亂鑽，身上細菌很多，可能讓人生病！ New York City has many, many rats. They're everywhere! The mayor...

Do you like to look at buildings? There are many interesting buildings in the world. Taipei 101 is interesting. It is so tall! One small town in Spain has some very cool buildings. This small town is called Setenil de las Bodegas. It is home to 3000 people. They have houses built in caves! And some houses have been built under very, very big rocks. Why did people build them? 西班牙有一個有三千個人...

Hi everyone! Do you… I'm at… Hey, guys! QUIET!!! …Thank you! All those animals are so noisy! Every different animal makes a different sound. Even turtles! Many people think turtles don't make sounds. But they do! How do I know? A scientist named Gabriel found out. 很多人以為烏龜不會發出聲音，但有一位叫 Gabriel 的科學家發現牠們其實會叫。 Gabriel was doing a study. It was not about turtles. The stud...

Athlete Spends 500 Days Alone There's an athlete from Spain who really likes to be alone… 西班牙有個運動員喜歡自己一個人。 The athlete's name is Beatriz Flamini. She's a mountain climber. Beatriz had a question. What does being alone for a long time do to someone? 她叫做 Beatriz Flamini，是一位登山家。她想知道長時間一個人會有什麼影響。 She spent almost a year and a half by herself! Underground! In...

People all over the world like comics. In the USA, they like superhero comics. Some of these comics are now big Hollywood movies! 你喜歡看漫畫嗎？美國人喜歡超級英雄漫畫，有一些漫畫還被改編成電影。 In Europe they like comics too. Belgium has streets named after famous comic artists. Art schools in Belgium even teach comic art! 歐洲人也喜歡漫畫，比利時還有一些街道以漫畫家命名，藝術學校還會教畫漫畫！...

Have you ever been to Delhi? Delhi is in India. Lots and lots of people live in Delhi! 你有去過印度的德里嗎？很多人住在那裡。 Many years ago, there were lots of sparrows in Delhi too. Rakesh Khatri gave food to sparrows. He was a kid then. 德里很久以前有很多麻雀，Rakesh Khatri 小時候常常餵麻雀。 Sparrows are little brown birds. They like to live in cities. But sparrows are leaving Delhi. They don'...

Hi everyone! Do you know what that sound is? I think you do. It's the dragon dance. This dance is great! It's one of Taiwan's traditions. 你知道這是甚麼聲音嗎？這是舞龍表演，是台灣的傳統之一。 Dragon dancing is very old. It started a long time ago in China. You can see the dragon dance in many countries now. People do dragon dances during special times like Chinese New Year. 舞龍表演起源於古時候的...

Hey there! Can you hear me? Am I on the Internet? We are very lucky in Taiwan. The Internet is easy to get for many people. We can get it at home, at school, and in convenience stores! Plus, it's cheap! 台灣很幸運，在台灣要上網很容易，家裡、學校，還有便利商店都有便宜的網路！ Some countries are not so lucky. The Internet is hard to get for many people. And it isn't cheap. 有一些國家就沒有這麼幸運了...

Guess what?! I have a new bike! I love it! It's shiny and new, and purple and blue! I can't wait to go ride my bike! 我有了一輛新的腳踏車，我等不及要去騎騎看了！ Taiwan has many beautiful cycle routes. They let you see mountains and forests and the ocean… They have made Taiwan famous all over the world for cycling! Route 是路線的意思，你也可以唸做 route。台灣有很多美麗的自行車道，可以看到高山、森...

Look at that beautiful dog! All that long, gold hair… I think it's a Golden Retriever! That dog is great! I want to say hello! But I can't. That dog is a guide dog. 那裏有一隻好漂亮的狗狗，我想是黃金獵犬，真希望摸摸牠說哈囉，但是不行，因為牠是導盲犬。 Guide dogs are working dogs. Their job is to help blind people or anyone who cannot see very well. Guide dogs keep them safe. 導盲犬有工作要做，負責...

I'm eating lunch at the beach! Now, where are my sandwiches? …Hey! That seabird took my lunch! It's very smart! Now scientists want to see just how smart seabirds are, to keep them safe. 海鳥偷走了我的午餐，牠們好聰明。科學家想要知道海鳥到底有多聰明，好保護牠們。 Scientists want to keep seabirds safe from wind farms. Wind farms make electricity from the wind. They have big machines called "turbine...

Hey, everyone! Look at the people around you. Some people are tall. Some are short. Some are thin. Some have big bellies. Some people think big bellies aren't healthy. But some think big bellies are great. 我們身邊的人，高矮胖瘦都有。有一些人覺得大肚子不健康，但有一些人就欣賞大肚子。 The Bodi people live in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a country in Africa. The Bodi people like men with big bellies. They...

Ah, that tastes good! Hey! Do you like soda? How about some cold milk tea? Drinks are great on a hot day! 你們喜歡喝甚麼飲料呢？汽水嗎？還是冰奶茶？ But there is a problem. Many drink shops use plastic cups. People use these plastic cups just once. Then they throw the cups away. Plastic is very bad for the earth. Lots of plastic gets into the ocean. It hurts the animals there. 很多飲料店都用塑膠杯...

Do you like cell phones? I think they're great. We can use them anywhere! We can do many things with cell phones. We can call people. We can text our friends. We can take pictures. 手機可以幫我們打電話，傳簡訊，還有拍照。 The first cell phone was super big. It was heavy. It weighed one kilogram! People could only talk for 25 minutes. That is very short! 史上第一台手機有一公斤重，超級大又超級重！而...