BEIJING - Chinese President Hu Jintao extended greetings on Tuesday to China's children, as well as those involved in work concerning children, prior to International Children's Day which falls on June 1.

在報道中，International Children's Day就是指“六一”國際兒童節(jié)。你知道嗎？其實一年之中有兩個“兒童節(jié)”的。除了“六一”國際兒童節(jié)之外，還有聯(lián)合國教科文組織發(fā)起的“兒童節(jié)”—— 11月20日的國際兒童日 （Universal Children's Day）。
既然今天是兒童節(jié)，那么我們就來學(xué)習(xí)一些跟兒童（child）有關(guān)的單詞。
child n. 兒童，小孩 例如：child abuse（虐待兒童），child labour（童工）
children：children是child的復(fù)數(shù)形式。例如：children's playground （兒童樂園）
childish adj. ① 孩子氣的，孩子所特有的
eg：The little girl spoke in a high childish voice. 這個小女孩用尖尖的童聲講話。
②【貶】幼稚的，傻氣的
eg：Crying for things you can't have is childish. 想要的東西得不到就哭是孩子氣的表現(xiàn)。
childlike adj. 天真的;童稚的;孩子般的
例如：Though nearly at the age of fifty, he still retains childlike innocence.　
他雖年近半百，但仍童心未泯。
childhood n. 童年，兒童時代
例如：They were childhood sweethearts. 他們原是青梅竹馬的戀人。
childbearing/childbirth n. 分娩，生孩子
eg：A period of acute depression can sometimes follow childbirth/childbearing.
分娩之后可能會有一段時間的急性抑郁期。

Children, also known as “June 1 International Children‘s Day,“ the annual June 1, the world of children‘s festivals. November 1949, the Women‘s International Democratic Federation council meeting held in Moscow. China and other countries and representatives of countries and anger exposed the imperialist reactionaries kill and poison children. In order to protect the world‘s children to survival, health and education, to improve the lives of children. The meeting decided in the annual June 1 International Children‘s Day.
The International Children‘s Day (ICD) is celebrated in numerous countries, usually (but not always) on June 1 each year.
The ICD had its origin in the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva, Switzerland in 1925. It is not clear as to why June 1 was chosen as the ICD: one theory has it that the Chinese consul-general in San Francisco (USA) gathered a number of Chinese orphans to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in 1925, which happened to be on June 1 that year, and also coincided with the conference in Geneva.
June 1 has since been observed as the ICD by numerous countries, especially by Communist countries; in the Western world the ICD is usually celebrated on other days of the year (if at all), and there is often little public awareness about these celebrations. (See the section on Germany below for further discussions.) Consequently there is sometimes a misperception that June 1 as the ICD was a Communist invention. Nonetheless, in recent years even some groups within the United States started observing the ICD on June 1.