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Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!
I'm Ryan Drillsma…
And I'm Trevor Tortomasi.
In today's news:
Taiwan's vaccine abroad, orangutan art, and Elton John glasses.
All that and more, coming up next.
高端疫苗 澳洲初步過關 Medigen Passes First Step in Australia
Over the past year, Taiwan has been helping a lot of countries deal with (對付) the effects of the pandemic.
At the start of the pandemic, Taiwan donated (捐獻) millions of face masks to Canada, Brazil, Slovakia (斯洛伐克), and many other places around the world.
It has donated medical equipment (醫療設備) to Japan and Palau.
過去一年，台灣幫助很多國家對付疫情。台灣把數百萬個口罩捐給加拿大、巴西、斯洛伐克等國家，還把醫療設備捐給日本、帛琉等等。
Taiwan may soon be helping out another country in a different way.
In August, Taiwan started giving people here its home-made COVID-19 vaccine, called Medigen (高端).
Now, the vaccine may soon be given to people in Australia.
In different countries, vaccines have to pass different steps (階段) to show they are safe and effective (有效) for people to use.
Australia has five steps.
But it will agree to receive (接受) a vaccine for two years after it passes three steps.
The Medigen vaccine has just passed the first one.
Medigen will now give clinical data (臨床實驗資料) to the Australian government to show the vaccine works.
The company says it is now bringing together (收集) all the documents (文件) it needs to give the Australian government.
Let's hope that Medigen is successful (成功的) in the next step.
And Taiwan can continue helping people fight the pandemic around the world!
高端公司正在收集必要文件交給澳洲政府，希望疫苗可以成功過下一關，讓台灣繼續幫助所有的國家抵抗疫情。
環境變化 會影響紅毛猩猩畫畫 Environment Inspires Orangutan Art
I think I'm going to draw a picture… but what to draw?
My family, friends, robots, monsters… or sunny skies and rainbows?
I like to get inspiration (靈感) from the things around me, or how I'm feeling.
But apparently, it's not just people that look to their thoughts or their environment (環境) to get inspiration when they draw.
Orangutans do it, too!
Orangutans (紅毛猩猩) are great apes (人猿) from Indonesia (印尼) and Malaysia (馬來西亞), with orange fur.
Did you know they could draw?
A zoo in Japan gave some orangutans crayons to draw with.
And their drawings were not random (隨便的).
Different orangutans had different styles (畫法). And they changed with the orangutan's mood.
Researchers at the zoo looked at 790 drawings from orangutans.
The researchers think different things in the orangutans' environment could have influenced (影響) how they draw.
One orangutan at the Zoo, called Molly, really likes drawing.
The researchers said she would often take an hour to finish one picture.
They said in the summer, she would draw more colorful loops (圈), and this could mean she was happy because of nicer weather or more visitors to the zoo.
Her drawings in winter were different.
日本動物園有一隻喜歡畫畫的紅毛猩猩，名叫Molly，牠常常花一個小時來作畫。Molly夏天會畫彩色圈圈，也許是因為天氣好或是訪客比較多，讓牠開心。在冬天牠畫的可就不一樣了。
I guess apes are smarter than we think.
And they like to do things for fun, just like us!
艾爾頓·強開始賣眼鏡 Elton John Launching Eyewear Collection
A famous singer is selling some new merchandise.
Elton John is well-known for his crazy eyewear.
He's worn many different outlandish (奇異) glasses as part of his stage costumes over the years.
Now, he is starting to sell glasses to fans.
艾爾頓·強常常戴很瘋狂的眼鏡表演，他現在開始賣自己設計的眼鏡。
His eyewear collection will include glasses, sunglasses, and reading glasses, both prescription (度數) and non-prescription.
Elton says his glasses will help people express themselves and give them confidence.
The glasses will be sold through the U.S. retail chain Walmart.
Walmart will also contribute to Elton's AIDS foundation as part of their partnership.
艾爾頓賣的眼鏡包括一般的眼鏡，墨鏡，還有老花鏡，有度數的沒有度數的都有。
So, in today's News Bites:
Taiwan's Medigen vaccine may soon be given to people in Australia.
And,
A zoo in Japan found out that orangutans like to draw.
And,
Elton John is starting to sell glasses to fans.
His eyewear collection will include glasses, sunglasses, and reading glasses, both prescription and non-prescription.
And that's today's episode of News Bites!