2026年8月9日

准备好了，开始测试！

Ready, set, test!

这个学年，想让孩子的学业更上一层楼，就试试IXL吧。这是一个基于科学、有研究支持、效果显著的在线学习平台。

Double down on your student success this school year with IXL, an online learning platform grounded in science, backed by research and touted for its proven results.

不过，IXL不只是为了应试而教学。

IXL doesn't just teach to the test, though.

它鼓励好奇心，加深理解，帮助孩子在数学、阅读、社会研究和科学方面建立自信，同时让从幼儿园到高中的孩子都能自主选择学习方式。

It encourages curiosity, improves understanding and helps boost confidence in math, reading, social studies and science, all while empowering kids from kindergarten through high school to choose how to learn.

更重要的是，它完全符合各州的教学标准。

Better yet, it's all aligned with state standards.

为孩子的学习带来真正的改变。

Make an impact on your child's learning.

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Kid News listeners can get 20% off IXL memberships when they sign up today at ixl.com/kidnews.

那就是ixl.com/kidnews，以最优惠的价格提供最有效的学习方案。

That's ixl.com/kidnews for the most effective learning program out there at the best price.

早上好，欢迎收听《儿童新闻》。

Good morning, and welcome to Kid News.

我是金。

I'm Kim.

今天是2026年9月8日，星期二。

Today is Tuesday, 09/08/2026.

我们首先关注夏威夷州，那里再次进入清理模式。

We begin with the state of Hawaii once again in cleanup mode.

飓风洛厄尔曾短暂达到五级强度，昨晚以仍然强劲的三级风力向夏威夷群岛逼近。

Hurricane Lowell, which briefly spun as a category five, barreled toward the island chain as a still powerful cat three late last night.

预报员预测，它将擦过该州西部岛屿，带来强降雨、山洪、狂风和破坏性海浪。

Forecasters predicted it would brush by the state's western islands and unleash heavy rain, flash flooding, gusty winds and damaging surf.

洛厄尔是短短三周多时间内第三个袭击阿罗哈州的天气系统。

Lowell is the third system in just over three weeks to target the Aloha state.

与此同时，太平洋的另一场风暴给南加州带来了大浪。

Meanwhile, a different storm in The Pacific brought high waves to Southern California.

飓风玛丽虽然一直在海上，但还是导致海滩关闭，沿海停车场被淹，数千人断电。

Hurricane Marie remained at sea but still closed beaches, flooded coastal parking lots and cut power to thousands.

如果你在劳动节周末去了某个地方，那你不是一个人。

If you traveled someplace over the Labor Day weekend, you weren't alone.

尽管机票价格高得吓人，汽油平均每加仑4.17美元，创下劳动节周末的历史新高，还是有四千五百万到四千八百万美国人开车或坐飞机出行，抓住夏天的尾巴。据NBC报道。

Between forty five and forty eight million Americans hit the road or took to the skies for one last gasp of summer despite sticker shock for airline tickets and gas at an average of $4.17 a gallon, the highest it's ever been over Labor Day weekend, according to NBC.

最热门的目的地是哪里？

The top destinations?

国内的话，是西雅图、奥兰多和波士顿。

Domestically, Seattle, Orlando and Boston.

国际的话，是罗马、温哥华和伦敦。

Internationally, Rome, Vancouver and London.

那些开车出行的人，很可能开的不是手动挡的车。

For those who traveled by road, chances are you didn't do it in a car with a stick shift.

Extreme Terrain的一项新调查显示，现在只有18%的美国人会开手动挡，其中年轻司机最不熟悉。

A new survey from Extreme Terrain shows that only 18% of Americans now know how to drive a manual, with young drivers least familiar of all.

老一辈人通常是因为没得选才学的，那是他们唯一买得起的车，而现在只有22%的Z世代司机这么说。

While older generations usually learned out of necessity that's the only kind of car they could afford just 22% of today's Gen Z drivers say the same.

供应也是个问题。

Supply is also an issue.

如今，只有0.5%的汽车是手动挡的。

These days, just half of 1% of cars are built with a stick.

再加上同时操作双脚和双手所需的专注力。

Add to that the mental focus needed to operate both feet and both hands at the same time.

驾驶教练安迪·纳尔逊告诉《邮报》，大多数人不想开手动挡，因为这需要大脑同时处理太多事情。

As driving instructor Andy Nelson tells the Post, most people don't like to do it because it requires your brain to do too many things at once.

我们都能做到，只是不愿意做。

We can all do it, we just don't.

天文学家早就知道土星是个奇怪的地方，但这个带环的巨行星越来越奇怪了。

Astronomers have long known Saturn is a strange place, but the ringed giant keeps getting stranger.

哈勃太空望远镜的观测显示，土星南极有一个十边形的涡旋，也就是十边形结构。

Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show the planet has a 10 sided vortex, or dekagon, at its south pole.

多年来，人们一直知道土星北极的大气中存在六边形结构，但像这样规则的几何形状在南极从未被观测到过。

A six sided shape, or hexagon, has been known to exist in the atmosphere of Saturn's North pole for many years, but a regular polygon like this has never been observed in the South.

科学家们并不完全理解这两种现象的原因，但认为它们是由环绕两极的强烈风暴形成的，这些风暴形成了巨大的几何形状。

Scientists don't completely understand the reason for either phenomenon but think they're caused by powerful storms that swirl around both poles, forming giant geometric shapes.

对于研究这颗气态巨行星的研究人员来说，南极的发现令人兴奋。

And for researchers of the gas giant, the southern discovery is exciting.

这项研究的合著者艾米·西蒙告诉NASA网站说，这个结构似乎正在增强。

It appears to be strengthening, study co author Amy Simon told nasa.com.

这给了我们一个难得的机会，去观察一个巨大的大气模式是如何形成的。

It gives us the rare opportunity to watch a giant atmospheric pattern develop.

她还有什么做不到的吗？

Is there anything she can't do?

在女足世界杯的首秀中，印第安纳狂热队的新星凯特琳·克拉克替补出场对阵中国队，帮助美国队以94比61轻松获胜，她贡献了14分、3个篮板和全场最高的11次助攻。

In her Women's World Cup debut, Indiana fever phenom Caitlin Clark came off the bench against China and helped Team USA cruise to a 94 to 61 victory, finishing with 14 points, three rebounds, and a game high 11 assists.

这11次助攻让她成为自1998年金牌争夺战中唐·斯特利以来，首位在世界杯比赛中助攻上双的美国球员，同时也打破了阿丽莎·托马斯此前保持的美国球员世界杯首秀9次助攻的纪录。

Those 11 assists made her the first American player to reach double figures in a World Cup game since Dawn Staley in the 1998 gold medal game, and they also broke Alyssa Thomas' previous record of nine by an American player in a World Cup debut.

用这种方式在国际舞台上亮相，可真不错。

Not a bad way to introduce yourself to the international stage.

美国队的下一场比赛是周四在柏林举行。

Team USA's next game is Thursday in Berlin.

接下来，一位中年牧师穿上装备，去追逐他久违的大学橄榄球梦想。

Still to come, a middle aged pastor suits up to chase down a long lost college football dream.

但在此之前，先来看看今天的儿童新闻问答。

But first, today's Kid News Quiz.

说出最近袭击夏威夷的那场风暴的名字。

Name the latest storm to pummel Hawaii.

飓风洛厄尔。

Hurricane Lowell.

哪颗行星南极出现了一个奇怪的十边形，让天文学家感到困惑？

What planet is puzzling astronomers with a strange new 10 sided shape at its South Pole?

土星。

Saturn.

美国一加仑汽油的平均价格是多少？

What was the average cost of a gallon of gas in The U.

美国。

S.

周末期间？

Over the weekend?

根据NBC新闻，是4.17美元，这是劳动节有史以来的最高价。

$4.17, the highest it's ever been on Labor Day, according to NBC News.

有多少比例的美国司机知道怎么开手动挡？

What percentage of American drivers knows how to use a stick?

18%。

18.

在今天的儿童新闻压轴节目中，加州的一位牧师证明了追逐梦想永远不会太晚。

In today's Kid News Kicker, in California, a pastor is proving that it's never too late to chase your dreams.

就在刚过去的周六，47岁的贾斯汀·布扎德迎来了自己职业生涯的第二场比赛，助力圣何塞城市学院美洲虎队以10比6击败了蒙特雷半岛学院队。

Taking the field for his second career game this past Saturday, 47 year old Justin Buzzard helped the San Jose City College Jaguars in a 10 to six victory over Monterey Peninsula College.

这位中年爸爸现在和十八九岁、二十出头的年轻人同场竞技，司职防守端锋。这个梦想他早在90年代就搁置了——当年一次手指受伤，让他的大学球员生涯提前终结。

This middle aged dad is suiting up alongside teens and 20 to play Defensive End, a dream he left behind in the 1990s when a finger injury cut his original college playing days short.

时隔近三十年，他决定把自己一直倡导的冒险理念落到实处。

Nearly three decades later, he decided to practice what he preaches about taking risks.

于是他以全日制学生的身份重返校园，报名参加了线上课程，终于要完成当年未竟的学业，同时也激励支持他这么做的三个儿子。

So he enrolled in the college as a full time student, signing up for online classes to finally finish what he started and inspire his three sons who encouraged his move.

他只用一句话总结了这段经历：能打大学橄榄球实在是太开心了。

He sums up the experience by simply saying, It's so fun to be playing college football.

接下来，给我们了不起的老师们送一份敬意，她就是

Now, shout outs for our terrific teachers, Ms.

安布罗斯带领她的老鹰队，对阵加州卢塞恩的卢塞恩队。这位夫人是

Ambrose and her Eagles at Lucerne in Lucerne, California Mrs.

杜涅斯带领她的黑豹队，对阵多克特队。

Duenyes and her Panthers at Doctor.

德克萨斯州德尔里奥的朗尼·格林学校的格林老师。

Lonnie Green School in Del Rio, Texas Mr.

伊利诺伊州弗里堡的弗里堡学校的德瓦特老师和他的大黄蜂队，还有……

DeWart and his Hornets at Freeburg in Freeburg, Illinois and Ms.

亚利桑那州钱德勒的哈特福德学校的戈麦斯老师和他的哈士奇队。

Gomez and her Huskies at Hartford in Chandler, Arizona.

老师们，我们的每周单词搜索游戏这周五回归。

Teachers, our weekly word search returns this Friday.

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感谢收听。

Thanks for listening.

祝你们有美好的一天，我们明天在《儿童新闻》再见。

Have a great day, and we'll see you back here for more Kid News tomorrow.