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.

在报道中，International Children's Day就是指“六一”国际儿童节。你知道吗？其实一年之中有两个“儿童节”的。除了“六一”国际儿童节之外，还有联合国教科文组织发起的“儿童节”—— 11月20日的国际儿童日 （Universal Children's Day）。 既然今天是儿童节，那么我们就来学习一些跟儿童（child）有关的单词。 child n. 儿童，小孩 例如：child abuse（虐待儿童），child labour（童工） children：children是child的复数形式。例如：children's playground （儿童乐园） childish adj. ① 孩子气的，孩子所特有的 eg：The little girl spoke in a high childish voice. 这个小女孩用尖尖的童声讲话。 ②【贬】幼稚的，傻气的 eg：Crying for things you can't have is childish. 想要的东西得不到就哭是孩子气的表现。 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.　 他虽年近半百，但仍童心未泯。 childhood n. 童年，儿童时代 例如：They were childhood sweethearts. 他们原是青梅竹马的恋人。 childbearing/childbirth n. 分娩，生孩子 eg：A period of acute depression can sometimes follow childbirth/childbearing. 分娩之后可能会有一段时间的急性抑郁期。

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.