Hello, everyone. It is the 1st of October. This year's flying by feels like just yesterday.

 

It was September. I'm Coy Wire. Welcome to CNN 10 It's national Walk to School day.

 

Did you know the goal is to create more walkable and safe communities? So if you didn't get a chance to get those steps in this morning, maybe take a little stroll later today.

 

Saunter around get those juices flowing.

 

saunter [ˋsɔntɚ] v. 闲逛；漫步

juice [dʒus] n. 精力，活力，劲儿

 

Today is also your word Wednesday. One of the vocabulary words that you submitted helped us write today's show. So listen up.

 

We start with a blockbuster deal in the gaming industry.

 

Electronic Arts, one of the biggest video game companies in the world has announced it is being acquired for 55 billion dollars the group behind the deal is led by Jared Kushner the son-in-law of President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's public investment fund.

 

They plan to make EA a private company meaning it will not be traded on public stock Exchanges or subject to regulation like public companies are.

 

To do that, they'll pay current shareholders two hundred ten dollars per share. The deal still needs regulatory approval, but is expected to close in the first quarter of the 2027 fiscal year.

 

EA was founded in 1982 and has produced some of the biggest video game franchises in the world Including the Sims need for speed and battlefield.

 

EA's most famous Franchise is also their longest-running as a former NFL player. It's also my favorite Madden NFL, first released in 1988.

 

It's become one of the best-selling sports series of all time. The massively popular franchise named for legendary NFL coach and broadcaster John Madden puts you in control of your favorite team and players.

 

But have you ever wondered how much work goes into making the game so realistic? I picked up a controller and went one-on-one with the mesmerizing voice behind the famous franchise.

 

mesmerize [ˋmɛsmə͵raɪz] v. 迷住；迷惑

 

I am here getting ready to play Madden which I haven't done for a long time with the voice of Madden.

 

Brandon Gunn, Charles Davis with you in what has been a tight fought scoreless football game.

 

scoreless [ˋskorlɪs] adj. 无得分的，零比零的

 

I have played this one time since high school and I haven't played it since so we get to experience this together.

 

So you had to record all this?

 

It's such a weird process man, it's recorded throughout the year in various stages and the game is recorded such that when you record it you do it in a model that they call stitching so when you do this play and you drop back to pass

 

stitching [ˋstɪtʃɪŋ] n. 拼接

drop back 後退 (指四分卫或其他后场球员，在开球后立即从开球线后退几步。)

 

and it says Pinnock's drops back to pass throws to the right and it's caught and he's tackled at the 23 everywhere that I pause there is a different line that maybe not only was recorded on a different day maybe a different year.

 

How long would you say hours would it take to voice a game?

 

So the first couple of years It took we did 400 to 500 hours of commentary.

 

So there's updates every year, but the old days of recording 400 to 500 hours per year that is kind of whittled down to about a hundred now.

 

whittle [ˋhwɪt!] v. 削减，削弱[（+away/down）]

 

So still a lot but not what it used to be.

 

Oh looking good. You're on the board, baby.

 

He's got a man at the 15, that's Dobson and Dobson is in to the end zone.

 

Do you find that it's more difficult to voice from a script? You know compared to when you're just at a game and you're seeing it live?

 

It is two totally different things much more different than I even thought it would be the way I describe it is Doing the Madden game is like being an actor, right?

 

It's just it's simply like being a voice actor. There's a lot of ad-libbing there is some script reading but whether you're doing ad-libbing or script reading you're bringing something to life that isn't actually happening, right?

 

ad-lib v. 即兴演讲，即席讲话

 

And so that is the challenge and that's what I had to get used to but it was a challenge that I loved.

 

Why don't we put your voice to work while you're not at work?

 

Okay, they're gonna go old-school I formation here. Pinnock's under center have not been able to get the run game going at all just three carries seven yards play fake.

 

under center (在中锋底下): 指四分卫直接站在中锋身后，接手从中锋手中开出的球，而不是站在后面几码处。

carry（美式足球）n. 跑动

play fake（美式足球）假跑

 

Pinnock's and down he goes. Huge loss 12 yards. The other direction Phillips gets in there for his second sack of the season.

 

sack [sæk] n.（美式足球）擒杀(是美式足球中的一个关键防守动作)。

 

Dang it.

 

dang [dæŋ] int【美】【口】（damn的委婉语）见鬼；讨厌

 

Dude, I brought the blitz. You were ready that time.

 

blitz [blɪts] n. 闪电战

 

This is awesome.

 

Pop quiz hot shot in the timeline of human evolution.

 

What is the closest extinct species to Homo sapiens?

 

homo sapiens 人类

 

Homo habilis? Pan Paniscus? Neanderthal? or Pongo pygmaeus?

 

If you said Neanderthal you get 10 out of 10 shorter and stockier than modern humans. They're believed to have gone extinct 40,000 years ago.

 

Neanderthal [nɪˋændɚ͵tɑl] n. 尼安德塔尔人

stocky [ˋstɑkɪ] adj. 矮胖的；健壮结实的

 

An ancient skull found in China has some scientists saying that early humans have been around 400,000 years earlier than previously thought.

 

Archaeologists have a general consensus that mankind's oldest ancestors began to evolve into Neanderthals about 600,000 years ago.

 

But now researchers believe one of two skulls found in an area known as young Shane are Actually 1 million years old after digitally reconstructing the skull fragments.

 

The artifact is now thought to be an early version of homo longi a sister species that had similar features to Neanderthals and homo sapiens.

 

Genetic evidence suggests it existed alongside them. So these scientists believe that if this skull comes from a million years ago. Then early versions of Neanderthals and our own species probably did too.

 

This next story is crepes a lutely clawsome, a wildlife photographer in Japan noticed a troubling trend Hermit crabs who were using trash as their homes.

 

hermit crab【动】寄生蟹

 

Now, he's helping the curious crustaceans level up shallow. He's swapping their trash for living arrangements that have them looking like shell liberties (celebrity) shall on say anyone?

 

In 2010 and I found my first hermit crab climbing up a tree in the forest with a bottle cap.

 

And that's all I could think about and I started exploring the coastal forest that night and I started finding a bunch of hermit crabs adapting with plastic.

 

So I offer hermit crabs available shells in trade of plastic that they're using.

 

My name is Sean Miller, I'm a wildlife photographer and I've been living in Okinawa, Japan for over 25 years.

 

This has been a long journey. So I started to make the switch for nature crab conservation project when I find a hermit crab that's adapting with plastic.

 

switch [swɪtʃ] n. 变更，转换，更改

 

I'll have some shells in my backpack and I'll pull that out and I'll put the shells around the actual hermit crab it switches over into it.

 

And right here. There's a hundred and seventy five pieces of plastic that I've traded. I called this one elbow the lug nut cover.

 

lug nut 轮毂螺母

 

This one was almost looks like a shift knob, right? I can't put the lid on anymore. Yeah, it's full .

 

shift knob 排档头

 

So they're temporarily adapting with the plastic until they find a better option. More than likely it is bad for them, right? 

 

more than likely 极有可能

 

Because they can't fully pull into the shell to protect themselves and obviously plastic have chemicals in there right that can leach into the sensitive part of the hermit crab which is the abdomen.

 

leach [litʃ] v. 漂洗，过滤（尤指土壤）

 

We get a lot of the shells from kind people around the world that donate them and on the shells I'll actually carve a message MTS 4n and then the number of the shell that it actually is.

 

Sometimes I'll carve a positive message on the back side of the shell when they get in it and they switch they immediately run away. Like it's the best thing they ever had.

 

So what people can do to support hermit crabs is first avoid collecting shells that have spirals for the hermit crabs to live in.

 

A lot of people contact me and they're just like I didn't know that I was taking homes from marine life. Another thing I recommend is “participating in a beach cleanup” small actions with big impact.

 

Today's story getting a 10 out of 10 aHeroic high school football team and their players in Oregon who jumped into action to save their coaches life.

 

During the Nestucca Valley Bobcats first summer practice their new offensive coordinator collapsed on his first day with the team.

 

bobcat [ˋbɑb͵kæt] n.（北美产）山猫之类

collapse [kəˋlæps] v.（健康等）垮掉；衰退；累倒

 

But I was just starting to set up the offense and explain the positions and then I said Oh coach is a little lightheaded and then I went down on the turf.

 

lightheaded [ˈlaɪthɛdɪd] adj. 头昏眼花的

 

Turns out he was having a massive heart attack. So his players sprang into action using the first aid skills they'd learned in school.

 

first aid 急救；急救护理

 

Me and another teammate Zeth Chapin immediately we were taking turns on chest compressions.

 

chest compression 胸外按压

 

We flipped him over and after a few seconds. He just went silent.

 

Now as his teammates continued CPR quarterback Brady Hurleman sprinted to an automated external defibrillator or AED something that all the students at this school had been trained to use and the quick thinking saved coaches life.

 

automated external defibrillator 自动体外心脏除颤器

 

Amazingly, he was back on the sidelines just weeks later following triple bypass surgery. The team's head coach is still in awe of his players.

 

in awe of 对……心存敬畏

 

I've been coaching for 20 years. I've coached college I've coached the state championship team in California. I was on the staff there and I've never seen kids respond like that.

 

There may be no I in team, but there is definitely one in lifesavers.

 

All right superstars.Congratulations to Nelson County Middle School in Lovingston, Virginia for submitting the word Mesmerizing an adjective that means capturing one's complete attention as if by magic and did you know the word? Actually derived from a name German. Dr. Franz Mesmer.

 

Now our first shout out of the day goes to Denver Language School in Denver, Colorado, Mr. Hart. You are so talented. Thank you for these characters.

 

They are definitely going up on our wall of friends. You nailed the haircut and Miss G at West Campus one juvenile Unit 5 in Modesto, California. Thank you for the kind letters and these custom M&Ms.

 

This is literally sweet. Going out make someone smile today. You are more powerful than you know. I'll see you right back here tomorrow everyone. I'm Coy Wire and we are CNN 10.