作者：(Brody)

配音，編輯：(Trevor)

第二配音員：(Paz)

Hey everyone, are you ready for some more News Bites?

I'm Trevor Tortomasi…

And I'm Paz Bueno.

In today's episode…

A hurt snake gets healthy again, an ancient palace is found in the desert, and a space rock falls from the sky.

Let's hear all about it, right now!

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錦蛇躲進寺廟療傷 治癒後離開

Snake Healed After Seeking Refuge in Taiwan Temple

If you saw a hurt animal, would you help it?

What if that animal was a snake?

Well, that's what happened in Taitung.

Recently, some people were visiting a temple (寺廟).

They saw an animal hiding under a statue of the land god.

他們看到有動物躲在土地公像的下面。

It was a snake!

This one was more than a meter long.

It looked hurt, so the people called a veterinarian (獸醫) who specialized in taking care of wildlife (專門照顧野生動物的獸醫).

They found out it was a beauty snake (黑眉錦蛇).

This kind of snake is not venomous (並不是毒蛇), which means its bite cannot really hurt people.

But, beauty snakes act like venomous snakes to protect themselves (保護自己).

The beauty snake had gotten tangled (被纏住了) in a net used to catch birds, and hurt its jaw (下顎受傷).

It couldn't close its mouth properly.

The veterinarian Mr. Liao brought the snake to an animal clinic and treated its wounds (治療它的傷口).

Mr. Liao says snakes usually get nervous (緊張) when they stay at the hospital.

This snake was given medicine, and a chance to rest, so its bones (骨頭) could heal naturally.

After 16 days, the snake was released into the wild (蛇被放歸野外).

According to Mr. Liao, the clinic has been able to heal nine snakes over the past two years, and return them to their life in nature.

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伊拉克發現 4500 年歷史的宮殿

4500-Year-Old Palace Discovered in Iraq

A team of scientists have discovered an ancient palace (古老的宮殿) in Iraq.

The palace is 4500 years old, and it may be the key (關鍵) to understanding how ancient people lived.

Dr. Rey is the leader of the team that found it.

He is an archaeologist (考古學家).

That means he is a scientist who studies very old things.

For years, Dr. Rey's team has been working in the desert of Iraq (伊拉克的沙漠).

That's in the Middle East (中東地區), the place with the world's oldest cities.

The team was studying an ancient city called Girsu.

In Girsu, they found a wall with some ancient words on it.

The words were hard to read, but Dr. Rey thought he understood them.

According to his theory (按照他的理論), the words said that next to the city was a palace, where the king and queen lived.

But, when Dr. Rey shared his theory with others, nobody believed him (沒有人相信他).

They said there was no palace.

However, Dr. Rey has been proven right (證明他是對的).

His team recently found the palace.

It was buried in the ground (埋在地下), so they dug it up.

The palace was built by ancient people called the Sumerians (蘇美人).

The Sumerians are important because they built the first cities in history, almost 5000 years ago.

They also created the first writing and the first laws ever.

Now, Dr. Rey's team is studying the palace, which is called "The Lord Palace of the Kings".

Inside the palace, they have found hundreds of clay tablets (泥板), covered in writing (上面寫滿了字).

Dr. Rey and his team of archaeologists hope the writing can lead them to their next discovery.

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隕石墜落在義大利

Meteorite Falls in Italy

What would you do if a star fell on your balcony (陽台)?

That's what the people in one Italian city (義大利有一個城市的居民) had to ask themselves.

Usually, the city of Matera is a quiet place.

But recently, the people of Matera saw something that surprised them (令他們驚訝).

It was a ball of fire in the sky!

It looked like a star falling from space.

It turns out, what they saw was not a star, but a meteorite (隕石).

That's what we call a rock from outer space that falls on Earth.

The meteorite landed right on a family's balcony.

隕石正好落在一個家庭的陽台上。

The family whose balcony the meteorite landed on gladly gave it to scientists, who named the meteorite after the family's two sons, Gianfranco and Pino.

科學家以該家族兩個兒子的名字，為這顆隕石命名。

Since the space rock didn't touch any water or earth, it is very clean.

That's what makes it interesting to scientists, who want to understand more about these meteorites!

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So, in today's News Bites…

A hurt snake was found hiding in a Taitung temple.

A veterinarian treated the snake and helped it get back to health.

After sixteen days, the snake was returned to nature.

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And,

An ancient palace has been discovered in Iraq.

The palace was built 4500 years ago, by a group of people called the Sumerians.

The Sumerians built the world's first cities and invented writing.

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And,

A meteorite has fallen on a city in Italy.

The rock fell from the sky and landed on a family's balcony.

Scientists named the meteorite after the family's two sons.

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And that's today's episode of News Bites!