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What's an allergy? It's when your body touchessomething and your body doesn't like it. Your body tries to fight it. People can have allergies to many things - plants, animals, and more.什麼是過敏? 當你的身體接觸到不喜歡的東西時，它會反抗，產生過敏反應。Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

Narrator: Space is so big. There's always something new to learn.外太空很大，還有很多新知可以去探索。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Do you sometimes not feel like taking a shower? Wouldn't it be nice if there was some kind of machine that could clean your body?你會不會有時候懶得洗澡呢？如果這時候有機器可以幫你洗澡，該有多好！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Sammie helps lonely kids. They feel sad… They need a friend. Sammie helps them find friends!Sammie幫助孤單的孩子交朋友。Click HERE for the full transcript!

A small Italian island has about 100 people. It also has about 600 wild goats!義大利的一座小島有差不多100位居民跟600多隻的野生山羊。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Long ago, people had no cellphones. There was no social media. There was no Internet! In Taiwan, there were no TV stations!很久以前，人們沒有手機、網路跟社交媒體。那時候，台灣也沒有電視台。Click HERE for the full transcript!

PA System: "Attention shoppers. One hundred dogs are running everywhere in the mall! We're very sorry. We're catching them as fast as we can!"Click HERE for the full transcript!

The Pacific Ocean is Earth's biggest ocean. But there is something big and bad there. It is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It has a lot of trash. It is as big as forty-four Taiwans!太平洋是世界上最大的海域，垃圾也特別多。垃圾形成的大片漂流物，有四十四個台灣那麼大！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Four and a half billion years ago, Venus and Earth were born together. They looked almost the same. They both had blue oceans and green mountains. They were twin planets!45億年前，金星跟地球一起誕生。兩個星球看起來幾乎一樣，都有藍色的大海和綠色的山，簡直是雙胞胎!Click HERE for the full transcript.

Do you know someone who lives in Arizona? It's in the U.S. Thirty thousand people from Taiwan live in Arizona. And Arizona loves them! 你可聽過美國的亞利桑那州? 台積電在美國的工廠就設在那裡，有三萬多名台灣人住在那裡。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Every year, Taiwan has many Hungry Ghost festivals. It's a very big, very old festival. Some say it's more than two thousand years old! People honor the ghosts of family and friends who died.台灣很多地方都會過中元節。 他大概有超過兩千多年的歷史。每年的中元節，大家會緬懷過世的親人。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Oh boy, it's so hot. Let's go for a drive to cool down. 天啊，真的好熱。我們去開車兜風。Click HERE for the full transcript!

I want to buy a new sweater. But I don't want to buy a cotton one. Cotton needs chemicals to grow faster. It needs chemicals that kill bugs. These chemicals are bad for the Earth.我想買新的毛衣，但我不要棉花做的。棉花需要化學物質才能除蟲、長得快，可是化學物質對地球有害。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: There's a brave dog in Peru. He is a hero at a gas station! 祕魯的一個加油站裡，有一隻勇敢的狗狗英雄! Click HERE for the full transcript!

Oh no! The kids didn't eat all their lunch! Did you know that food that is not eaten is called "food waste"?糟了，這些孩子們沒有把午餐吃完，你知道剩下的食物就會變成廚餘了嗎!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Guys! Be careful… That's an African clawed frog! That thing's a killer! RUN!!! …Click HERE for the full transcript!

What did you do when you got your first smartphone? Did you read about how to use it? Did you ask someone for help?第一次有智慧型手機時，你做了什麼？有人教你嗎?Click HERE for the full transcript!

"Eight, nine, ten… phew!" Exercise is hard work! But kids in Taiwan need more exercise. It's very important for good health.呼! 運動很辛苦，但台灣的小孩需要做更多運動，這對健康非常重要。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Space looks empty! What's out there? Well, there are planets, moons, stars, and more. Are there aliens? Hmmmm ...Are there diamonds? Yes, you heard that right: diamonds! 太空看起來空蕩蕩的，有些什麼東西呢? 有行星、衛星、恆星等等。會有外星人嗎?還是鑽石?Click HERE for the full transcript!

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。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Orangutans are smart apes. Sadly, there aren't many of them. Their rainforest homes are getting too small. They live in Indonesia and Malaysia. These countries are south of Taiwan.紅毛猩猩是聰明的人猿。可惜牠們越來越少，因為居住的雨林越來越小。牠們住在東南亞國家印尼跟馬來西亞。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Good Health for Back to School  It's back to school for you! But! It's also back to catching colds...More sneezing and coughing are around you! But there are many ways to stay healthy. 嘿!該是你們回學校上課的時候囉! 但是隨著開學，越來越多身邊的人咳嗽和打噴嚏，你們也更加容易感冒，不過，有很多保持健康的好方法哦。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

Scientists say something is flying in space. And it's near Earth. It's not a spaceship. It's not a plane. It's a rock! Huh?科學家說地球附近有物體在飛，不是太空船或飛機，是一顆石頭！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Maybe your school has swings. Two long chains hold a seat. You hold the chains. The seat is behind you. You move back a little. Then you sit and put your feet out! Whee!你應該玩過學校的鞦韆，手抓緊鍊子，坐在椅子上，雙腳往前伸，然後往後彎，就可以飛好高！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Every year, many people catch the flu. Being sick isn't fun. But the flu is easy to catch. You can catch it when someone with the flu sneezes or coughs near you.每年很多人得流感，只要病人咳嗽打噴嚏，身邊的人就可能被傳染！Click HERE for the full transcript!

Some dogs work at airports. Some dogs work for the police. Why? Dogs have good noses. They can smell things very well. They smell things much better than we can. They can smell things we cannot smell!有的狗狗在機場工作，有的是警犬，因為牠們的鼻子靈敏，可以聞到我們聞不到的氣味。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Taiwan loves sports! We won the WBSC Premier12 last year! The World Masters Games were here this year.台灣很喜歡運動，我們去年贏得世界棒球十二強，今年還舉辦世狀運!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Joss paper is burned for gods and people who have passed away. It's also called ghost money. 紙錢是活人燒給神明和已經過世的人使用，又叫做冥紙。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Playing with hula hoops is fun. You move your waist backward and forward fast. The hoop spins around and around your waist. It doesn't fall down! Do you know why?搖呼拉圈很好玩，你有好奇過為什麼只要前後搖擺，呼拉圈就會繞著腰旋轉嗎?Click HERE for the full transcript!

Taiwan is a great country for birdwatchers. We have about seven hundred kinds of birds. We have ducks and geese! We have pigeons and doves! We have owls!台灣是很適合賞鳥的國家，我們有七百種不同的鳥、鴨子、鵝、鴿子跟貓頭鷹！Click HERE for the full transcript!

People use AI every day. It writes words and makes pictures. It finds information online. And soon, it will help teachers in New Taipei City and Hsinchu City!大家每天用 AI 寫文章、做圖片或找資料，很快地，新北跟新竹的老師也會用 AI 幫忙 !Click HERE for the full transcript!

Antarctica is at the bottom of the world. It's a cold and windy place. A red and white bus called Ivan worked there. He took people from planes to research stations.南極是風大寒冷的地方，那裏有一台紅白相間的依凡巴士，依凡巴士負責載科學家到研究站。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Ground control: All systems are ready... Ten... nine... eight ...Narrator: Taiwan is getting its first rocket launch site! Rockets going to space will be launched from there.台灣將要蓋第一座火箭發射場，之後可以從這裡發射火箭到太空。Click HERE for the full transcript!

No one knows when an earthquake might happen. But there are three things we must do when an earthquake happens: drop, cover, and hold on. Dropping to the floor can keep us safe.地震不能預測，但我們知道怎麼應對，要趕快蹲到地上，找東西掩護並抓緊!Click HERE for the full transcript!

What do you want to be when you grow up? Do you want to be a chef, a police officer, or an artist? Or do you want to be a teacher, a musician, or a doctor?你長大想做什麼? 廚師、警察、藝術家嗎?或是老師、音樂家跟醫生呢?Click HERE for the full transcript!

Do you have a backbone? Yes! People have backbones. Birds, fish, and some other kinds of animals have backbones too. Backbones make us vertebrates. Without backbones, we'd be like jelly!你有脊椎嗎?當然啦! 人類、鳥類跟許多動物都有脊椎，不然我們會像果凍一樣!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Taipei knows milk is good for kids. It makes bones and teeth strong and healthy.牛奶對小朋友很重要，能讓骨頭跟牙齒更強壯。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Have you seen big groups eat beautiful meals on a road? These are roadside banquets. People have them for new babies, weddings, and other events.你看過一群人在路邊吃大餐嗎?台灣慶祝新生兒或喜宴時會舉辦，那叫做辦桌。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Seagrass grows in the ocean. It grows where the bottom of the ocean gets some sunlight. That's up to fifty meters deep. Seagrass fields can grow in the middle of the ocean!海草長在照得到陽光的海底，可能是有 50 公尺深的海中央!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Taiwan has its own butterfly. It's the purple crow butterfly. In sunlight, its color changes all the time. Japanese scientists call its changing color "magic light." 紫斑蝶是台灣特有的蝴蝶，翅膀會在陽光下變色，日本科學家稱這個現象為幻色。Click HERE for the full transcript!

In South America, a tree's roots grow above the ground. They look like octopus legs. Some people say the tree walks! Is that true?南美洲有一棵樹的樹根突出地面，像是章魚腳，甚至有人說它會走路!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Today is World Bicycle Day. What's that sound? That's right. It's a YouBike! It's a bike people can rent.世界腳踏車日就是今天! 一起租 YouBike 來騎吧 !Click HERE for the full transcript!

Everyone knows Earth has one moon. That's why it's called 'the moon'. It goes around our planet. People have gone to the moon in rockets. How do we know something is a moon? It goes around and around a planet or something that isn't a star.地球只有一個月亮，但只要不斷繞著行星，又不是星星的物體就叫月亮，所以外太空裡有很多顆。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Being out in the sun with friends feels good! Doing this when we're exercising, having fun, and helping others feels GREAT!在太陽下跟朋友玩很享受，如果可以同時運動跟幫助人，感覺更棒!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Blimps are airships. They look like whales in the sky! They're full of a gas. This gas is lighter than air. The gas makes blimps go up.飛船就是飛行的船，長得很像鯨魚，裡面充滿比空氣輕的氣體，所以可以升到空中。Click HERE for the full transcript!

A mom in Yunlin has a daughter. She took her daughter to the doctor. The doctor told the mom her daughter needed to eat many kinds of food. What if her daughter didn't want to? The doctor said the mom needed to find ways to get her daughter to eat them.雲林一個女孩長不高，醫生告訴媽媽，要讓她吃各式各樣的食物，媽媽該怎麼做呢?Click HERE for the full transcript!

A young man from Japan visited Taiwan. He wanted to see Taiwan's beautiful scenery. He got on his bike. He wanted to ride all the way around Taiwan.一個日本年輕人想看台灣最美麗的風景，所以他跳上腳踏車，要繞台灣一圈。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Some of us talk to our plants. Did you know that plants talk, too? But they don't talk like we do. And we cannot hear them talk. So how do we know plants talk?你知道植物會說話嗎? 只是跟人類方式不同，我們也聽不到，那怎麼知道的呢?Click HERE for the full transcript!

What happens to old ships? Some become museums or hotels. Some are recycled. And some help ocean animals!不再使用的舊船要如何處理? 可以變成旅館或博物館，或是被回收，也許還能幫助海洋動物! Click HERE for the full transcript!

Brazil is a country in South America. It's famous for many things. Carnival is Brazil's most famous celebration. Many cities there have big, big parties! There's lots of music and dancing. Many people wear colorful costumes!南美洲巴西最會辦派對! 他們的嘉年華有很多音樂表演、舞蹈，還有五彩繽紛的變裝!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Bees are yellow and black. They fly from flower to flower. This helps make food for us. But bees need help, so today is World Bee Day.蜜蜂每天飛來飛去散播花粉，可是很辛苦的! 大家趁著今天是蜜蜂日，和牠們說辛苦囉!Click HERE for the full transcript!