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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 top YouTube video, a very old piece of art, and a Squid Game sequel.
All that and more, coming up next.
台灣YouTube觀看次數最高的影片 Taiwan's Top YouTube Video
What do you like to watch on YouTube?
Do you watch videos about toys, sports or video games? Perhaps you watch videos of cute animals… or maybe the news?
What do you think other people like to watch?
YouTube publishes a list (名單) every year of the most-watched (觀看次數最高) videos in each country.
And the results are in for Taiwan.
The most watched video in Taiwan this year is… a video with toy car guinea pigs.
That's right, toy cars… that are also guinea pigs (天竺鼠).
It's a stop-motion animation video.
Stop-motion animation (定格動畫) is when someone takes lots of pictures of objects, but moves them slightly each time.
All the pictures are put together to make a video.
定格動畫是一種製作動畫的方式，一連拍很多張照片，每一次都稍微調整拍攝目標的位置，然後把所有的照片組成影片。
The video is about a toy car guinea pig character called Pui Pui.
Pui Pui gets stuck in traffic.
When an ambulance (救護車) gets stuck behind Pui Pui, the guinea pig has to think of an inventive (有創意的) way to get past all the other cars.
The video currently has over 10 million views.
It was uploaded (上傳) by a channel (頻道) called Muse Taiwan on January 5.
And it's just over two and a half minutes long.
影片裡有一台天竺鼠車子叫PuiPui，它要想辦法幫助救護車超過長長的車隊。影片長度是兩分半，目前觀看次數上千萬。
男子發現三十塊美金的畫作 其實價值五千萬元 Man Finds 50 Million Dollar Drawing
Have you ever bought something and then found out it's worth (價值) much more than you paid for it?
A man in the US state of Massachusetts got a big surprise recently.
Four years ago he went to an estate sale.
In the US, when someone dies and their family doesn't need to keep (留著) all the things they left behind, they sell them.
That's what an estate sale is. 這就是遺產拍賣。
At the estate sale, the man bought a drawing for 30 dollars.
It's a picture of a woman and a child.
When he saw the drawing, he spotted (注意到) the letters "AD" in the corner.
He recognized (認出來) these as the initials of an extremely famous German artist who lived 500 years ago. 他知道兩個字母，是五百年前一個非常有名的德國畫家姓名縮寫。
The man didn't think the picture could be a real drawing by "AD" - Albrecht Durer - but he liked it, so he still bought it.
但是他認為這幅畫不可能是畫家的真跡，而他又喜歡這幅畫，所以還是買了。
Over the next few years, he tried to sell it to a few different people. He suspected (懷疑) that it could be a real Albrecht Durer drawing.
But nobody would buy it.
He finally took it to a famous Albrecht Durer collector (收藏家). He told the man he thought it was real.
They sent it to a museum (博物館) in Austria. The museum confirmed (確認) that it was a real drawing from around 1503.
And the collector thinks it could be worth 50 million dollars.
一位著名的收藏家認為那幅畫是真的，還送去奧地利博物館給專家鑑定。專家確認是Albrecht Durer 在1503年前後畫的，大約值五千萬美元。
Could you imagine accidentally finding this much money? I'm going to look for some old art…
魷魚遊戲會有第二季 Squid Game Getting Second Season
A hit series will have a follow-up.
Squid Game has been renewed for a second season.
The director has confirmed this news personally (親自).
He says there has been huge demand for another season of his show.
魷魚遊戲電視節目非常受歡迎，導演確認未來會有第二季。
Squid Game was the most-watched show on Netflix when it debuted in September.
Despite the confirmation, the director says he doesn't know when the second season will be released.
He says he's still planning what happens.
The director does promise (承諾) that the main character will return for season 2.
導演說不知道第二季什麼時候才會上映，但他保證主角會再演。
So, in today's News Bites:
The most watched video in Taiwan this year is… a video with toy car guinea pigs.
It's a stop-motion animation video.
The video currently has over 10 million views.
And,
A man in the U.S. state of Massachusetts got a big surprise recently.
He bought a drawing for 30 dollars.
It could be worth 50 million dollars.
And,
Squid Game has been renewed for a second season.
The director promises that the main character will return for season 2.
And that's today's episode of News Bites!