Happy New Year.

新年快樂。

Hope your 2024 is off to an epic start.

希望你的 2024 年有個好的開始。

I'm Coy Wire. This is CNN 10 and we are so grateful that you choose to spend part of your day with us.

我是 Coy Wire 這是 CNN 10，我們非常感謝你們選擇與我們共度這一天。

This is gonna be a big year.

這將是重要的一年。

We have the US presidential election in November.

11 月將舉行美國總統大選。

We have the Summer Olympics in Paris.

我們將在巴黎舉辦夏季奧運會。

We have a solar eclipse taking place in April and it's a leap year.

四月有日食，而且是閏年。

We get an extra day in February, so that means we get 366 days to make this year great.

我們在二月多了一天，也就是說，今年我們有 366 天的時間讓今年變得很棒。

Let's get this show on the road.

讓我們開始今天的節目。

Mother Nature starting 2024 in full force.

2024年初，大自然展現了強大的力量。

A powerful winter storm is making its presence felt throughout the nation, bringing all sorts of wintry mix, including heavy snowfall, freezing rain and gusty winds.

一場強大的冬季風暴正讓全國各地感受到其存在，帶來各種冬季混合降水，包括大雪、冰雨和狂風。

The size of this storm ranges from the southwester part of the US to the northeast where more than 30 states are impacted.

這場風暴的範圍從美國西南部到東北部，有 30 多個州受到影響。

More than 35 million people were under winter storm alerts over the weekend and traveling was treacherous, especially in the northeast as state officials advised commuters to avoid unnecessary travel.

上週末，超過 3500 萬人受到冬季風暴警報的影響，出行十分不便，尤其是在東北部地區，州政府官員建議大眾避免不必要的出行。

The plains region of the US is expected to see strong winds that could bring wind chill values below zero degrees flooding, even tornadoes may be a concern for the Gulf Coast area.

預計美國平原地區將颳起強風，可能導致風寒值低於零度的洪水，墨西哥灣沿岸地區甚至可能出現龍捲風。

The Times Square ball drop is a Hallmark of New Year's Eve.

時代廣場的落球儀式是除夕之夜的標誌。

One minute before January 1st, the sparkling ball begins its descent.

1 月 1 日前一分鐘，閃閃發光的圓球開始下落。

The ball drop has taken place annually since 1907.

自 1907 年以來，每年都會舉行落球儀式。

It was halted for two years during World War II, but crowds still flocked to Times Square.

第二次世界大戰期間，時代廣場停辦了兩年，但人們仍然會湧入時代廣場。

Until 1995, the ball drop was managed by the family company of its first creator Jacob Starr.

直到1995年，降球儀式由它的第一位創造者雅各布·斯塔爾的家族公司管理。

Since then, there have been many makeovers of the famous ball, including crystals, grindstones and strobe lighting.

此後，人們對這個著名的球進行了許多改造，包括水晶、磨石和頻閃燈。

Whether this enduring ritual has the audience a few or many, it always marks the end of the old and beginning of the new.

無論這個持久的儀式的觀眾是少數還是眾多，它總是標誌著舊的結束和新的開始。

10-Second Trivia.

十秒問答。

Scientists name Antarctic icebergs based on what? Their size above the surface, size below the surface, their shape or location of first sighting?

科學家根據什麼命名南極冰山？ 它們在表面上方的大小、表面下方的大小、它們的形狀或第一次看到的位置？

The US National Ice Center assigns names to these icebergs based on where they are first cited and then the order in which they are cited.

美國國家冰中心根據首次引用的位置以及引用的順序為這些冰山指定名稱。

The world's largest iceberg is named A23a, it was the 23rd iceberg cited in the A quadrant of Antarctica.

世界上最大的冰山被命名為 A23a，它是南極洲A象限中的第23座冰山。

The continent is divided into A, B, C, and D quadrants. Did you know?

南極洲被分為 A、B、C，和 D 象限，你知道嗎？

Recently scientists studied A23a as it recently started drifting around the Antarctic peninsula again.

最近，科學家們對 A23a 進行了研究，因為它最近開始在南極半島周圍漂移。

This iceberg is about three times the size of New York City, weighing nearly a trillion tons.

這座冰山的大小約為紐約市的三倍，重達近萬億噸。

CNN spoke with the Antarctic Survey team about this force of nature and where it might be headed next.

CNN 採訪了南極考察隊，瞭解這股自然力量以及它下一步可能的去向。

Antarctic scientist had a quote unique opportunity to observe the world's largest iceberg, three times the size of New York City.

南極科學家有一個獨特的機會觀察世界上最大的冰山，其面積是紐約市的三倍。

The iceberg broke away from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf more than 30 years ago, but it stayed grounded on the Antarctic's wet sea and only started moving recently.

30多年前，這座冰山脫離了菲爾希納-龍尼冰棚，但它一直停留在南極潮濕的海洋上，直到最近才開始移動。

Now, it's drifting around the Antarctic peninsula.

現在，它正在南極半島附近漂流。

The research team on the RRS Sir David Attenborough, cross paths with the iceberg early December.

12 月初，RRS 大衛‧阿滕伯勒爵士號上的研究小組與冰山相遇。

I was just incredibly excited to see it.

看到它，我感到無比興奮。

It's really quite staggering uh in scale.

從規模上看，這確實令人吃驚。

If you're up against it, it almost just looks like land.

如果你站在它面前，它幾乎看起來就像一塊陸地。

It has these big towering ice cliffs. You know, you're stretching sort of, as far as the eye can see in both directions.

它有這些高聳的冰崖。 你知道，你在某種程度上拉伸了眼睛在兩個方向上所能看到的範圍。

As the iceberg moves north into warmer waters, it's gradually melting and producing melt water into the ocean.

隨著冰山向北移動，進入溫暖的水域，冰山逐漸融化，產生的融水流入海洋。

Scientists took water samples around the iceberg to try to understand the impacts it may have on the physical circulation and nutrients of the ocean.

科學家們在冰山周圍採集了水樣，試圖瞭解冰山可能對海洋的物理循環和營養物質產生的影響。

We know that large icebergs like this have the potential to bring a large amount of mineral dusts from the continent into the operation.

我們知道，像這樣的大型冰山有可能將大陸上的大量礦物粉塵帶入作業中。

And many of the ecosystems in the operation are limited by the amount of nutrients that are available.

而作業區內的許多生態系統都受到可用養分數量的限制。

So they can act as big sources of, of nutrients and, you know, impacts near surface productivity that ultimately sustains the -- the ecosystems of the -- of the southern nation.

它們可以作為營養物質的重要來源，影響近海面的生產力，最終維持南部海洋的生態系統。

Experts believe the iceberg will likely discharge into the Scotia Sea and end up close to the South Georgia Island.

專家們認為，冰山可能會排入斯科舍海，並最終靠近南喬治亞島。

American shoppers spent a record $222 billion online this past holiday season.

在剛剛過去的假日季，美國購物者的網上消費額達到了創紀錄的 2220 億美元。

But let's be honest, not all those purchases are keepers. If you know what I mean?

但老實說，並不是所有購買的東西都能留住。你明白我的意思嗎？

Maybe that sweater that your auntie got you doesn't quite make the cut.

也許你姨媽給你買的那件毛衣並不適合你。

So you send it back.

所以你把它退回去了。

Now, many companies offer free returns, right?

很多公司都提供免費退貨服務，對嗎？

But those returns might not go where you may think they'd go.

但這些退貨可能並不是你想象的那樣。

CNN's Peter Valdez de Pena explains.

CNN 記者 Peter Valdez de Pena 解釋更多。

Fee returns. Their customers' insurance policy for shopping online, but what happens to those returns after you give them back might surprise you.

免費退貨。他們顧客網路購物的保險政策，但在你歸還這些商品後發生的事情可能會讓你驚訝。

So customers really believe that the product just goes into the black hole or ends up being resold to another customer. In many instances, that's not the case.

客戶確實相信該產品只是進入了黑洞或最終轉售給了其他客戶。 在許多情況下，情況並非如此。

In reality, many of these products never return anywhere.

實際上，這些產品中的許多從未返回過任何地方。

Instead, they may end up here or even here.

相反，他們可能會在這裡甚至在這裡結束。

You know, easily 25% of all these returns get destroyed.

要知道，這些退貨中很容易就有 25% 被毀掉。

In fact, returns have become such a headache for retailers that in some cases, they're just refunding customers and letting them keep or donate the unwanted items.

事實上，退貨已成為零售商頭疼的問題，在某些情況下，零售商會直接退款給顧客，讓他們保留或捐贈不需要的商品。

The cost of getting the product back from the customer is much higher than traditional logistics, getting the product to the customer.

從客戶那裡取回產品的成本比傳統物流將產品退還給客戶的成本要高得多。

Turns out, free returns are far from it.

事實證明，免費退貨還遠非如此。

There's a very large disparity between the amount of returns that happen from consumers that buy products online versus in the store.

消費者在網路上購買產品與在商店購買產品的退貨金額有很大差異。

In a brick and mortar store, we typically get somewhere between five and 10% returns.

在實體店，退貨率通常為 5% 到 10%。

But online, we get north of 30% returns.

但在網路上，退貨率在 30% 左右。

Accepting a return isn't always easy either.

接受退貨也並非易事。

A warehouse optimized for fulfilling orders now has to receive a product and inspect it.

為履行訂單而優化的倉庫現在必須接收產品並進行檢查。

Then someone needs to decide whether it can be resold or not.

然後需要有人決定是否可以轉售。

In the end, an online return can require up to 20% more space and labor than one made in store.

最終，網上退貨所需的空間和人力可能比店內退貨多出 20%。

Those costs are part of why Toro a return solution company estimates that returning a $50 item can cost a retailer 59% of its sale price.

這些成本是退貨解決方案公司 Toro 估計退貨成本為 50 美元的商品可能會讓零售商損失其售價 59% 的部分原因。

Often the math just doesn't add up.

通常情況下，計算結果是不一致的。

So this is a product that came in one of these pallets. - Liquidators like this one are the middlemen between retailers and resellers.

所以這是一種裝在這些托盤中的產品。 - 像這樣的清算人是零售商和經銷商之間的中間人。

We sort organized process and figure out methods to get them to the right home.

我們對流程進行分類整理，並想辦法把它們送到合適的家庭。

And that's, that's really what we do here.

這就是我們的工作。

They buy a return merchandise then sort and evaluate it before auctioning it to discount stores and authorized resellers.

他們購買退貨商品，然後對其進行分類和評估，然後將其拍賣給折扣商店和授權經銷商。

You'd be able to resell them at a profit because you would be purchasing them at a real fraction of what the actual cost is.

可以透過轉售它們來賺取利潤，因為你將以實際成本的一小部分購買它們。

But some returns never make it to a liquidator products.

但有些退貨從未進入清算人產品。

Ending up in landfills.

最終被填埋。

Customers don't really even think of that as part of the purchase process every year returns produce an estimated £5 billion of waste in landfills.

顧客甚至不會想到，作為購買過程的一部分，每年退貨在垃圾填埋場產生的廢物估計達 50 億英鎊。

It's generally risky to remind consumers how potentially wasteful their consumerism is.

一般來說，提醒消費者他們的消費行為可能造成的浪費是有風險的。

So in general, retailers are hesitant to lean too heavily into those kind of awareness campaigns.

一般來說，零售商不太願意過多地開展這類宣傳活動。

In an odd way, this is a partially self correcting problem as the return problem gets bigger for all these retailers.

奇怪的是，隨著所有這些零售商的退貨問題變得越來越嚴重，這是一個部分自我糾正的問題。

There's more financial resources available to fix the problem.

有更多的財政資源可用於解決問題。

So there's a happy outcome where less of this stuff ends up in a landfill just because there's more money to be made by keeping it out of the landfill.

這樣就有了一個令人高興的結果，那就是垃圾填埋場中的垃圾減少了，因為不讓這些垃圾進入垃圾填埋場可以賺更多的錢。

For today's story getting a 10 out of 10, the 13-year-old from Stillwater, Oklahoma who beat the game of Tetris into submission.

今天的故事滿分 10 分來自俄克拉荷馬州 Stillwater 的 13 歲少年將俄羅斯方塊遊戲打得落花流水。

Oh my God.

天哪。

That's Willis Gibson in total disbelief as he pulled off the nearly impossible, beating, so to speak, the iconic video game Tetris.

這是 Willis Gibson 在完全不敢相信的情況下，完成了標誌性電動遊戲俄羅斯方塊中幾乎不可能完成的動作。

It took him about 38 minutes.

他花了大約 38 分鐘。

The Tetris Titan is the first human gamer ever to reach level 157.

俄羅斯方塊泰坦是有史以來第一個達到 157 級的人類玩家。

The other player to reach at least this level was artificial intelligence.

至少達到這一等級的另一個參與者是 AI。

After reaching this rare threshold, the game glitched and hit its kill screen.

在達到這個罕見的臨界點後，遊戲出現了故障，進入了擊殺界面。

Here's the Tetris company chairman explaining why.

下面是俄羅斯方塊公司董事長的解釋。

You can tell by, you know, this kid that broke the game that he went into an area of memory of the computer memory that the programmer never envisioned they would end up in.

你可以通過這個孩子破解遊戲的過程看出，他進入了程序員從未設想過的電腦內存區域。

And that's why the program crashed.

這就是程序崩潰的原因。

Shout out to Willis for accomplishing the nearly unthinkable.

向威利斯致敬，他完成了幾乎不可想象的任務。

It's also time to shout out you.

也是時候向你們致敬了。

Our first of the year, this one goes to Winner Middle School inWinner, South Dakota.

我們今年第一個要致敬的是南達科他州 Winner 的 Winner 中學。

I see you, warriors.

我看到你了，勇士們。

And this one goes to, The lions, the mighty lions of Brindlee Mountain High School in Guntersville, Alabama.

還有一個要致敬的是，獅子，阿拉巴馬州岡特斯維爾市布林德利山高中威武的獅子。

Rise up.

加油。

Thank you for subscribing and commenting on our CNN 10 youtube channel.

感謝你訂閱和評論我們的 CNN 10 YouTube 頻道。

I'm headed to Houston y'all.

我要去休斯頓了。

We're gonna be there for the college football championship game and we're taking you to NASA Space Center to get a tour from an astronaut.

我們將在那裡觀看大學橄欖球冠軍賽，我們還將帶你們去美國國家航空航天局太空中心參觀太空人。

So send us any questions you may have for them.

如果你有任何問題要問他，請發送給我們。

I'm @CoyWire on social, and we are CNN 10.

我在社交美體上的帳號是 @CoyWire，我們是 CNN 10。