More than 15,000 screaming schoolchildren turned up to watch David Beckham practice football.
Football superstar Beckham was practicing with his LA Galaxy clubmates late last month in New Zealand at Wellington stadium.
Schools gave students time off and organized buses from all over the region to take them to the stadium. The Galaxy played an exhibition match in the evening against the local Phoenix club.
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There was pop music and the cheers and screams got extra loud every time Beckham waved or smiled at the crowd.
Kids held up banners saying: "We love Becks" and "Go David Beckham."
Beckham said earlier that he was looking forward to the session.
"To have 15,000 kids and people wanting to come and watch us train - I'm not sure I've had that before, to be honest," he said. "It's going to be a great thing for our players." (STAFF WRITER, WITH DPA)
超過一萬五千名興奮尖叫的學童到場觀看貝克漢練習踢球。
足球金童貝克漢和洛杉磯銀河隊隊員上個月底在紐西蘭威靈頓體育館練球。
該區學校不但放學生假,還安排專車接送他們至體育館。洛杉磯銀河隊與威靈頓鳳凰隊在當天傍晚舉行了一場友誼賽。
練習時現場播放熱門音樂,每當貝克漢向觀眾席揮手或微笑時,加油和尖叫聲更是響徹雲霄。
學生揮舉著「我們愛貝克漢」和「貝克漢加油」的牌子。
貝克漢稍早時曾表示,他很期待這次集訓。
「有一萬五千名學童和民眾願意來看我們練球─老實說,我不確定以前是否有過類似的經驗,」他說:「但這對我們球員來說意義非凡。」(德通社/翻譯:袁星塵)
Taiwanese cuisine boasts a rich culture of thick soups, with various options available at street vendors or high-end restaurants. In English, this style of dish is typically called “thick soup.” Western cuisine typically uses flour, cream, or mashed vegetables to create a creamy consistency, while in Taiwan, thick soups are made by simply incorporating food starch into the soup and creating a smooth and silky texture. Tutuo fish in thick soup is such a soup with fried tutuo fish chunks, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and wood ears. 台灣羹品飲食文化豐富,無論是巷口小店或是高檔餐廳,都有提供羹料理。羹在英文稱作「濃湯」,西式濃湯是以麵粉、鮮奶油、蔬菜泥等達到濃稠的口感,台灣的羹湯用太白粉即能做出濃稠絲滑的湯頭。土魠魚羹就是在勾芡的羹湯中加入炸土魠魚塊、香菇、竹筍、木耳等食材的料理。 boast (v.) 擁有(令人驕傲的事物) consistency (n.) 濃稠度 chunk (n.) 厚塊,大塊 wood ear (n. ph.) 木耳 The star of this
Huge stretches of coral reef around the world are turning a ghostly white this year amid record warm ocean temperatures. On April 15, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed the world’s fourth mass global bleaching event is underway — with serious consequences for marine life and for the people and economies that rely on reefs. WHAT ARE CORALS? Corals are invertebrates that live in colonies. Their calcium carbonate secretions form hard and protective scaffolding that serves as a home to many colorful species of single-celled algae. The two organisms have evolved over millennia to work together, with corals providing shelter to algae,
A: So who were Hollywood’s highest-paid stars of 2023? B: No. 5 to No. 2 were: Matt Damon with US$43 million, Ryan Gosling with US$43 million, Tom Cruise with US$45 million, and Margot Robbie with US$59 million. A: Didn’t Tom Cruise top the list? B: Nope, Adam Sandler was No.1, having made US$73 million, which is about NT$2.34 billion. A: Wow, maybe I should change my career to acting. A: 好萊塢去年的片酬排行榜前幾名是誰? B: 第5到2名是︰麥特戴蒙、4300萬美元,雷恩葛斯林、4300萬美元,湯姆克魯斯、4500萬美元,瑪格羅比、5900萬美元。 A: 冠軍竟然不是阿湯哥? B: 是亞當山德勒、片酬7300萬美元,大約23.4億台幣! A: 天啊或許我也該轉行當演員啦。 (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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