News For Kids

Can you tell when someone is lying? Scientists say people are not very good at guessing who is lying and who is telling the truth. 科學家說，人類不太會分辨別人是不是在說謊。 But computers are very good at finding liars. 但是電腦就有辦法。 One new computer uses a special sticker. You put the sticker on a person's face, and the sticker can feel very small movements on their face. 有一種新的電腦用特...

Brrr… It's a little cold out there. No snow though. We don't get much snow here, but some places get a lot of it. 台灣不太下雪, 但是有一些地方會下很多！ Snow can be pretty, but it can also cause problems! In Denmark recently, some customers were doing some shopping when heavy snow trapped them and staff inside a couple of stores all night! 最近在丹麥，有一些顧客跟員工被大雪困在兩家店裡一整晚！ Luc...

Have you ever gone camping? 你有去露營過嗎？ Camping can be fun. It's great to sleep in a tent and hear the sounds of nature. 睡在帳篷裡，聽大自然的聲音，感覺很棒。 Often, people go camping in the mountains or near a nice lake. Some people in England go camping in a very different place. They go camping in a church. Yeah, a church! 在英國，有的人會去教堂露營。 There are lots of old churches in Eng...

Wow! It's Christmas. I love to open gifts! 我喜歡打開耶誕節禮物！ Kids get some great presents at Christmas time. They might get a toy train set. Or, they might get a cool video game. But, around Christmas, children can get a bit greedy. 有些小孩會變得有點貪心。 They ask for a lot of presents! A toy company did a survey. The toy company asked parents how many presents their kids ask for. The surve...

December 26th is the day after Christmas… But December 26th is also a special day for some people! It's a holiday in many places, such as the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. 在很多國家，耶誕節過後的12月26日也很特別。 December 26th is called "Boxing Day." Boxing Day? Does that mean a day for boxing? 禮物日，跟拳擊有關係嗎？ No… no boxing on Boxing Day. Boxing Day is almost like a second C...

Did you know, we have two sets of teeth over our lives? We sometimes call the first teeth: 'baby teeth.' 人的一生有兩組牙齒，第一組叫做乳牙。 Kids have 20 baby teeth. As you grow up, you lose your baby teeth and get new 'adult' teeth. 成長過程中，牙齒會慢慢掉光，長出來的新牙齒叫做恆齒。 Do you have all your adult teeth yet? Adults have 32 teeth… well, most of the time. Some animals have many teeth...

What's the fastest thing you can do with your body? Run? Ehhhh, you can run fast, I guess. 你的身體最快的動作是甚麼呢？跑步嗎？ What about blinking? 眨眼呢？ Yeah! The blink of an eye happens really fast! 眨眼睛的動作很快。 But there's something many people can do that's even faster than blinking! Twenty times faster! 有一個動作比眨眼睛快20倍。 It's something you can do… just like that! Have you g...

Brrrrrrrurrr! Winter is here! 冬天到了！ Some people don't like winter, but I do… because that's my favorite time to go to hot springs! 我喜歡冬天，因為很適合去泡溫泉！ And, I have good news. A new hot spring area has opened in a park in Yilan. 宜蘭一座公園的溫泉區新開幕了！ Yilan is famous for hot springs. This hot spring area is really nice! It's called the Qing Shui Springs or in Chinese. 清水...

Go number 7! Come on lucky number 7! Yeah! My horse won! In some countries, people enjoy watching horse races. 有些國家的人喜歡看賽馬。 In Japan, horse racing is super popular! One horse in Japan is getting very famous… and yes, the horse is a winner… But it is famous because it has a super long name… I mean… super long! 這匹馬有一個超長的名字！ The horse's name is … Sumomomomomomomomo! It's a gre...

Playgrounds are fun! 遊樂場真好玩！ Everyone loves slides, swings, and monkey bars. But in Kaohsiung, some of the playgrounds are very old… The swings are broken… the slides are broken… and the monkey bars are broken. 高雄有些遊樂場很老舊，設備都壞了。 But… good news! Kaohsiung will soon open new parks… with new playgrounds! 不過馬上就有新的公園和遊樂場了！ All the swings, slides, tunnels and monk...

Hey, kids. Today, I'm going to talk about the biggest animal on land. Yup, it's the elephant. The coolest thing about an elephant is its trunk. 大象最酷的地方，就是牠的長鼻子。 Elephants use their trunks for a lot of things. They use them to smell, of course. But they also use them to lift heavy things. And, they use them to suck water. 不但能聞東西，還能搬重物跟吸水！ But their trunks are not lik...

I love a good cup of coffee. 我好喜歡喝咖啡。 It smells delicious, tastes delicious, and it helps me wake up in the morning. But every time I make a pot of coffee, I have a bunch of coffee grounds that I have to throw away afterward. 但每次煮咖啡後都留很多咖啡渣。 Well, guess what? There is a Taiwanese company that has come up with a great way to reuse coffee grounds, so they don't go to waste. Th...

World's Largest Chocolate Box Opens in Belgium Mmmm… I love chocolate. It tastes so good. Chocolate might be my favorite kind of candy. 巧克力大概是我最喜歡吃的糖果。 I wish I could visit a chocolate factory and see how people make chocolate. That would be so much fun! 我很想去參觀巧克力工廠，一定很好玩！ The chocolate factory I really want to visit is called The Barry Callebaut Chocolate Box in B...

Hi, everyone! You guys know Tom Cruise, right? You've seen him in the Mission Impossible movies. You know that movie, right? 大家知道阿湯哥吧? 他是電影[不可能任務]的男主角。 Tom Cruise wants to make a movie in space. That's right. He wants to take a rocket into space and make a movie. Tom Cruise wants to be the first person to make a movie in space. 他想要成為第一個在太空拍電影的人。 But, guess wh...

Done! I finally finished my drawing. 終於畫完了。 I think it's pretty good! I drew a picture of a dog because I like dogs. 我畫了一隻狗。 But I like drawing pictures of all kinds of other animals too… 我也喜歡畫別種動物， like cats, elephants, donkeys, or bears. Did you know that humans have been drawing pictures of animals for a very long time? And by that I mean, a very long time. When people fi...

Argh! My arms are so tired from carrying all these heavy boxes! I am moving into a new apartment today. 我今天要搬到新的公寓。 I have packed up all my belongings into boxes, and I have been moving all of my things into my new home. Carrying heavy things all day has made me so tired. 整天搬重重的東西好累。 But you know what could be worse? If I had to carry heavy things for two years! That's what h...

Yeah… A little more… All right! Oh, hi. Sorry! I'm just putting a little tomato ketchup on my hot dog. Wait, you didn't think… no! Eww! It was ketchup! I love ketchup! 我愛番茄醬！ You know who else usually loves ketchup? Astronauts! 太空人也愛番茄醬。 A lot of the food they bring to space is dried and flavorless, so ketchup and other sauces can help make it taste better. 太空食物乾乾的，沒什麼味...

Argh! Okay, okay, stop! That is not a pleasant way to wake up. But do you know an even worse way to wake up? A giant rock falling into your bed! 有人睡覺時被砸下來的石頭嚇醒！ Yep, that is something that has really happened! A woman named Ruth in Canada was woken up one day when a large rock fell through her roof, and landed right in her bed. 事情發生在加拿大，一塊大石頭穿過屋頂，掉到一位女士的床...

Do you know what 'buskers' are? You see them performing on the street in cities all over the world. 世界各地都會看到在街上表演的人。 Sometimes they play the guitar and sing… other times they do magic tricks… or they might do a cool show with a yo-yo! 有一些表演者會自彈自唱，或表演魔術，甚至耍溜溜球特技！ In Chinese, we call them 'jie tou yi ren'. In English, they are called "buskers" or "street pe...

Ah, what a beautiful day to be at the beach. Ew! Why is there so much garbage? 海邊的垃圾怎麼這麼多？ Many beaches have a lot of garbage buried in the sand. 很多垃圾都被埋在沙裡面。 There is also a lot of garbage floating in the oceans. 海裡的垃圾也很多。 There is so much trash in the ocean that a lot of it has become a giant pile of garbage in the Pacific Ocean. People call it The Great Pacific G...

Oh, excuse me! Do you ever feel sleepy during the day, but then not sleepy that night? Actually, a lot of people have that problem! 你會不會有時候白天想睡覺，但是到了晚上就不睏了? 其實很多人都有這個問題。 Do you also ever feel sleepy when sitting on the bus or the train? 你搭公車或是火車時也昏昏欲睡嗎？ Guess what? A lot of people feel like that too! You must have seen many people fall fast asleep...

There's a new music center in Kaohsiung City! The building is really cool… it looks like it was made by aliens! 新的高雄流行音樂中心，看起來好像外星人蓋的建築！ There is one big indoor place for concerts and one big outdoor place for concerts. 5,000 people can fit inside… and 8,000 people can fit outside. 室內可以容納五千人，室外則可以有八千人。 The new Kaohsiung Music Center is near the port and...

Here's a question for you. What animal is big, green, ugly, and sounds like this? Wow! That's scary! Did you guess what it is? It's an alligator. Did you know that there are more than a million alligators in Florida? That's right - there are over a million alligators in the U.S. state of Florida. 美國佛州，有超過一百萬隻鱷魚。 What would you do if you saw an alligator? I would run as fast as I cou...

Buy! Buy! Buy! Quick! Hurry! On sale! Cheap! Cheap! Cheap! Buy more… yes… more and more! It's BLACK FRIDAY! 趕快買啦！黑色星期五到了！ Hmmm… Black Friday? That sounds scary. Is Black Friday like Halloween? Well, no, but it can be a bit scary when people get too crazy. Black Friday, in America, is the Friday after Thanksgiving… at the end of November. But now many places around the world have a Bla...

Do you know anybody who doesn't eat meat? Or maybe you don't eat meat. 你認識吃素的人嗎? 還是你自己就不吃肉？ A person who doesn't eat meat is a vegetarian. Many restaurants have vegetarian dishes. There are also some restaurants that only serve vegetarian dishes. 很多餐廳提供蔬食，也有素菜餐廳。 But did you know there's also a whole city that's vegetarian? 但是你知道有個吃素的城市嗎？ A whole cit...