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Arizona Baseball Team Will Have a Taiwan Day

Do you know someone who lives in Arizona? It's in the U.S. Thirty thousand
people from Taiwan live in Arizona. And Arizona loves them!
你可聽過美國的亞利桑那州?
台積電在美國的工廠就設在那裡，有三萬多名台灣人住在那裡。

Arizona has a baseball team. This month, the team is having a Taiwan Day!
Forty-eight thousand people can go! Many will learn more about Taiwan.
Everyone will have lots of fun!
亞利桑那州的職棒隊伍是響尾蛇隊，他們九月20號比賽當天要舉行[台灣日]，會有四萬八千名觀眾一起同歡。

Fans can buy baseball shirts for Taiwan Day. The shirts have "Taiwan" and "8"
on the back.
粉絲可以買上面寫著台灣和8這個數字的球衣。

Fans can watch a pop group sing and dance! The six young women are cool! Five
are from Taiwan!
來自台灣的流行樂團「幻藍小熊」也會表演，六名團員中有五個是來自台灣。

Then fans can watch the game. A Taiwanese man will throw the first ball. He
was a great baseball player in Taiwan!
比賽將由台灣的棒球名人張泰山開球!

Many fans will look for player number seven. That's Corbin Carroll. His mom
is from Taiwan! Corbin is very fast! He's great at stealing bases! And he
hits lots of home runs!
很多粉絲也會尋找背號是七號的外野手卡洛爾，他的母親是台灣人，他很會盜壘，也打出過好多次全壘打!

The team had a Taiwan Day last year. People wanted a Taiwan Day this year
too. Baseball is helping Taiwan and Arizona be good friends!
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Vocabulary
很多台灣人移居美國亞利桑那州，那裏的棒球隊也注意到這一點。

1. home run 全壘打。
I hope we can see three home runs tonight! 我希望今天看到三支全壘打。
I'm sure we can. 一定可以。

2. fast 快速的。
He was so fast the last time he hit one! 他上次打到時速度超快的!

3. player 選手。
Have you ever thought of being a baseball player? 你有想過當棒球選手嗎?
Me? Half of the time I didn't know where the ball was! 我?
一半的時間我都不知道球在哪裡!

4. look for 尋找。
That makes two of us. 我跟你一樣。
I'm often looking for the ball. 我經常都在找球。
Do you enjoy baseball games? 來一起讀單字。

home run全壘打 fast快速的 player選手 look for尋找
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Quiz

1. How many people from Taiwan live in Arizona?
a. 30,000
b. 40,000
c. 48,000

2. What can fans buy for Taiwan Day?
a. A pop group
b. A baseball shirt
c. The first ball

3. Who is Corbin?
a. A baseball player from Taiwan
b. Player number 7
c. Player number 8

Answers
1. a
2. b
3. b
 

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Hello and welcome back to a new episode of News Bites!

I’m Allie Highsmith.

And I’m Ron Stuart.

In this episode of News Bites: Three Taiwanese municipalities make Michelin
Bib Gourmand list for the first time!

And, a church in Sweden makes a big move.

And in this episode’s News Flash: budget.
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開動了！米其林必比登 首次推薦新北和新竹縣市的餐廳
New Taipei, Hsinchu County, and Hsinchu City debut on Bib Gourmand rankings

The Taiwan Michelin 米其林 Guide released its new Bib Gourmand rankings
必比登推介 recently.

On this year’s list, three Taiwanese municipalities 縣市 are being
recommended for the first time ever!

Those municipalities are New Taipei City, Hsinchu City, and Hsinchu County.

Other municipalities that were already on the list are Taipei, Tainan,
Kaohsiung, and Taichung.

In total 總共, there are 144 restaurants on the list.

37 of them are new this year.

Taipei has the highest proportion 比例 of restaurants on the list.

Over one quarter of restaurants on the Bib Gourmand list are in Taipei City.
超過四分之一必比登推介的餐廳是在臺北市。

Next up is Tainan.

Tainan had 21% of restaurants on the list.

Tainan is certainly known as a popular food destination in Taiwan!

Kaohsiung came in third place, with 17% of all the restaurants on the list.

And Taichung was a close fourth, with 16%.

At the bottom of the list are the three newcomers- New Taipei with 10%,
Hsinchu County and Hsinchu City with 5% each.

The Bib Gourmand list is different from the Michelin Guide.

It’s more about finding restaurants with the best bang for your buck!

In other words (換句話?), it recommends restaurants where you can get great
food, for not too high of a price.

Michelin says, Hsinchu being on the list this year shows that Hakka (客家)
food is getting more attention now.

They say that Hakka cuisine traditions use more bold, savory flavors.
米其林說，客家傳統料理使用較多大膽又鹹香的配料。

And, many of the restaurants being recommended for the first time show off
Taiwanese specialties, like taro balls 芋
頭球, soy milk 豆漿, and pork knuckle 豬?.

好想吃喔！
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瑞典小鎮的教堂搬家了！
A Swedish Church Takes a Big Move

搬家好討厭欸！好麻煩。

I know, right?!

But hey, at least I don’t have to move a church.

Umm…a church?

Yeah! In Sweden 瑞典, people moved a whole church from one place to another!

The church is 113 years old.

Well, how far did they move the church?

They had to move it about 5 kilometers 五公里 away!

The church was put on top of a big rolling platform 有輪子的平臺 so that
people could roll it from the first place to the new one.

Wow, it must take a very long time to move it that far, even though the
distance 距離 is not very long.

Yes, it took two days to move the church.

The people moved it at a maximum speed of 500 meters per hour.
最快的速度是一個小時500公尺!

This happened in the Swedish town of Kiruna.

Wait wait wait- why did they have to move it in the first place?

Actually, it’s a problem that all of Kiruna is facing 面對: in parts of the
town, the earth is cracking!
在這個瑞典小鎮，好幾個地方的土地已經裂開！

The town has had a lot of mining 採礦 that caused parts of the earth to crack.

Mining iron 鐵礦 is common in that area, about 145 kilometers north of the
Arctic Circle 北極圈.

But the law in Sweden says that companies cannot mine under buildings.

The town has been moving lots of buildings so that they will not be destroyed
被拆除.

They started doing that in the 2010s.

The church, called the Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, was built in 1912 and weighs
672 tonnes!

Some people think the church is one of Sweden’s most beautiful buildings!

Officials say that they have prepared 準備 a lot for the move.

They emphasize that the process is very complex and big, so they need to
control all details.
官員?調，這是個複雜又巨大的過程，所以要控制好所有的細節。

They say that one of the biggest challenges 挑戰 was making the road big
enough for the church to pass through.

They needed to take down traffic lights and a bridge!
為了讓教堂通過，有些紅綠燈和橋梁必須拆除。

And, it’s important to protect 保護 the inside of the church, like a
painting made by one of the members of the Swedish royal family.

Wait, this move must be extremely expensive…

That’s right! But the company that runs the iron mine is paying for the city
to relocate all these buildings- including the church.

The whole thing will cost about one billion USD- that’s about 30 billion
NTD! 整個過程要十億美金；就等於三百億臺幣！

Local residents say that the whole thing is very moving 感動.

They emphasize that the church is a place for the community to get together.

It’s full of memories, with over 100 years of history.

One person says, the move brings happy and sad memories into the future.
居民說，搬遷教堂的過程悲喜交集，會長留在回憶中！
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So, in today's News Bites:

Three new Taiwan municipalities are on the Michelin Bib Gourmand list.

They are New Taipei, Hsinchu City, and Hsinchu County.

Other cities like Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, and Tainan were already on the
list.
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And,

A church in Sweden took a big move.

The over 100 year old church in the town of Kiruna moved 5 kilometers from
its original place.

The ground where the church was was cracking, so the town needed to move it
to protect the history.
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News Flash

In today’s News Flash, our vocab word is “budget!”

That’s spelled B-U-D-G-E-T.

“Budget” is both a noun and a verb.

It means, how much money you plan to spend.

So for example, I budget 150 NT for lunch everyday.

Budget is called 預算 in Mandarin.

And now you know!
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message and send us your Bite-Sized Break to newsbites@icrt.com.tw, and you
might hear it in an episode!

We’ll see you next time for an exciting new episode of News Bites!