The Taipei Universiade ended this Wednesday. Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai won the gold medal for men’s pommel horse. Lee outshined all competitors with his “Thomas flairs” to finish with a high score of 15.300 points. It was Taiwan’s second gymnastics gold ever at a Universiade.
Lee first got into gymnastics when he was only six years old, and he often used his gymnastics skills to attract customers to his mother’s vegetable stall at a market — for which he earned the nickname “Market Boy Kai.” He shot to fame as a child for his role in the 2005 gymnastics documentary film Jump! Boys.
The documentary tells the story of seven boys on the gymnastics team of Gong Jheng Elementary School in Yilan County. Lin Yu-hsien, the director of the movie, plans to release another documentary film, Jump! Men, after the Universiade about their transition from boyhood to adulthood over the past few years.
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(CNA, translated by Eddy Chang)
台北世大運本週三落幕,台灣體操選手李智凱在男子鞍馬項目勇奪金牌。他以「湯瑪士迴旋」技壓群雄,拿到十五點三的高分,也成功替台灣拿下史上第二面世大運體操金牌。
李智凱從六歲就開始練體操,他常會到菜市場陪母親賣菜,並且以體操技巧來吸引顧客,因此被大家暱稱為「菜市仔凱」。在他小時候,因為參與二○○五年的體操電影紀錄片「翻滾吧!男孩」而成名。
該片是宜蘭縣公正國小體操隊七位小男孩的故事,導演林育賢表示,在世大運結束之後將要推出「翻滾吧!男人」紀錄片,講述他們這些年來從男孩蛻變成男人的過程。
(中央社)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
Around the time of the Dragon Boat Festival in June, the streets of Taiwan are filled with the delightful aroma of zongzi, a traditional snack made of sticky rice wrapped in leaves. The leaves are folded into a cone and then filled with sticky rice and other ingredients such as braised pork belly, peanuts and salted duck egg yolks. The filled leaves are then tightly tied with kitchen twine and ready for cooking. 每到六月端午時節,街頭巷尾就會飄出粽子的香氣。粽子是將糯米包進粽葉的傳統美食,先將粽葉折成圓錐狀塞入糯米,以及紅燒肉、花生、鹹鴨蛋黃等配料,用棉線綁緊後即可烹煮。 Dragon Boat Festival (n. phr.) 端午節 aroma
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