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Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!
I'm Ryan Drillsma…
And I'm Nancy.
In today's news:
Farmers feed fish yoghurt, Harry Potter sells a Harry Potter book, and Amazon links up with Prince Charles.
All that and more, coming up next.
養魚業者給魚吃優格 Farmers Feed Fish Yoghurt
What do fish eat?
An organization in Taiwan has found they can make fish even healthier by feeding them something unexpected (難以想像的).
It's yoghurt (優格)!
A special type of yoghurt was made by the Fisheries Research Institute, or FRI.
It's because fish farmers were complaining that their fish were becoming infected (感染) with a kind of bacteria (細菌).
It was killing the fish, and costing them lots of money.
養魚業者發現魚一直因為吸入壞細菌而患病死亡，這樣又可惜又浪費錢。
The fish needed something to help them fight the bacteria.
So the FRI decided they could try to introduce (輸入) good bacteria into the fishes' diets.
We all have good bacteria in our bodies, it helps us digest (消化) food.
The FRI thought giving the fish more, different kinds of good bacteria could help fight the bad bacteria that was causing them to die.
The organization has tested mixing their special yoghurt into fish food for over a year.
They found it helps certain types of fish grow, and increase their defense (抵抗力) against bad bacteria.
The cost of adding the yoghurt to the fish food is much lower than what it costs each time a farmer's fish die and they have to be replaced.
So it's good for the fish and the farmers.
And eating healthy fish is no doubt good for us, too!
養魚業者發現給魚吃這種特製的優格可以讓它們更健康，減少業者的損失，而且吃這種比較健康的魚，也許也對我們比較健康喔！
哈利波特賣哈利波特的書 Harry Potter sells Harry Potter Book
Harry Potter has just sold his Harry Potter book and made a lot of money!
Well, it's not the Harry Potter from the book itself, but a man from the U.K. named Harry Potter.
Many years ago when he was 8, his dad bought him a copy (影本) of the first Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Because he thought it was cute that his son shared the same name as the main character m(主角).
But that copy is special.
It's a hardback first edition (初版硬殼精裝). And only 500 hardback copies were made the first time around.
Harry Potter小時候收到爸爸送的書，而這本書很特別，就是初版硬殼精裝的哈利波特－神秘的魔法石，全世界只有500本。
People who collect (收藏) books always like to buy first editions.
So they are pretty valuable (價值高).
And Harry Potter from the UK just sold his copy at an auction (拍賣) for 27,500 pounds.
That's over a million Taiwanese dollars.
The first edition hardback has some special things about it that collectors like to look out for.
For example, "philosopher's" is misspelled (拼錯) on the back cover.
And the word "wand" is accidentally printed twice on page 53.
這個初版硬殼精裝的書有些特質，標題在書本的後蓋上拼錯，而且'魔杖'在地53頁意外重印。
As for Harry Potter himself (the real one), he said he has spent his whole life trying to convince (說服) people it's his real name.
查爾斯王子和亞馬遜合作 Prince Charles Teaming Up with Amazon
A British royal is partnering with an Internet giant.
Prince Charles has announced that he is cooperating with Amazon Prime Video.
Under the deal, Amazon will help the prince raise awareness (認知) about the environment.
Charles hopes the partnership will allow him to get the message out to a much wider audience.
英國的查爾斯王子和亞馬遜簽了合約，將推廣環保節目。
Prince Charles had already set up his own online television channel last year.
It has shows and movies exclusively (專門) about green issues.
The channel highlights projects helping the environment and businesses making eco-friendly innovations (創新).
These programs will now be shared across Amazon's Prime Video platform.
查爾斯王子去年已經設了自己的平台，內容都跟環保議題有關。
So, in today's News Bites:
Bad bacteria was killing fish so farmers fed them yoghurt.
It helped increase the fishes' defense against the bad bacteria.
And it helped save the farmers a lot of money.
And,
Harry Potter sold the first edition of a Harry Potter book.
But he wasn't the one from the story… there is a man in the U.K. called Harry Potter!
He sold the book for a huge 27,500 pounds.
And,
Prince Charles has announced that he is cooperating with Amazon Prime Video.
Amazon will help the prince raise awareness about the environment.
Amazon Prime Video will share Charles' videos across its platform.
And that's today's episode of News Bites!