In this episode of Bitesize News, Joeru and Amber break down the latest headline from the WBC (World Baseball Classic 世界棒球經典賽) — with MLB’s official website predicting that Team Taiwan (中華隊) will advance, even edging out South Korea.

本集用清楚易懂的新聞中文，帶你了解什麼是「晉級」、「力壓」、以及體育新聞裡常見的比賽用語。同時，我們也聊聊：為什麼台灣人這麼關心棒球？WBC 對台灣來說代表什麼意義？

News source: 鏡週刊, 2026/02/22 （文：東森新聞）(https://www.mirrormedia.mg/external/ebc_538722)

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In this episode, we cover:
– WBC 是什麼？為什麼台灣高度關注？ (What is the World Baseball Classic, and why does it matter so much in Taiwan?)
– 標題解析：「晉級」、「力壓」的新聞用法 (Key headline vocabulary: advance to the next round & edge out)
– 韓國隊赴沖繩集訓、中華隊在台北大巨蛋備戰 (Korea training in Okinawa vs. Taiwan preparing at Taipei Dome)
– 「備戰」、「赴」、「看好」、「闖關」等正式新聞詞彙 (Formal news verbs commonly used in sports reporting)
– 台韓棒球競爭的歷史與「台式應援」文化 (The Taiwan–Korea rivalry and the rise of Taiwanese cheering culture)

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