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Washington is home to lots of trees—it is the Evergreen State, after all—and lots of fireplaces and wood-burning stoves too.
華盛頓有很多樹-畢竟它是常綠洲-也有很多壁爐和燒木頭的火爐。
But what if you lived there and couldn't chop wood or couldn't afford to pay someone to do it?
如果你居住在華盛頓，砍不了柴，或者雇不起砍柴人呢？
Luckily, Shane McDaniel and his twin sons, Harrison and Henry McDaniel, 21, are happy to lend an ax.
幸運(yùn)的是，肖恩·麥克丹尼爾和他21歲的雙胞胎兒子哈里森和亨利·麥克丹尼爾很樂意借給你一把斧頭。
The three men chop truckloads of wood—then donate it to those in need.
他們?nèi)齻€(gè)會(huì)砍一卡車的木頭，然后把它捐給需要的人。
"I want people who are burning cardboard because they've got nothing," Shane explained to heraldnet.com.
肖恩向《先驅(qū)報(bào)》網(wǎng)站解釋道，“我想要把木頭捐給那些燒紙板的人，因?yàn)樗麄儧]有別的東西。”
"Or someone 75 with no money who has a broken shoulder and can't cut wood." The idea started as a father-son bonding project, he told msn.com.
“或者是某個(gè)窮困的75歲的人，或許他肩膀受傷了，不能砍柴。”他在接受msn網(wǎng)采訪時(shí)表示，這個(gè)想法最初開始于一個(gè)父子關(guān)系項(xiàng)目。
"I had to cut wood with my dad. He just loved doing it," says Shane, 48, a divorced father of six.
48歲的肖恩說，“我一定得和爸爸一起砍柴，他就是愛砍柴。肖恩離異了，是六個(gè)孩子的父親。
He wanted to pass along that feeling, so he and the twins spent the summer of 2018 like a clan of Paul Bunyans.
他想把這種感覺傳遞下去，于是他和雙胞胎兒子像保羅·班揚(yáng)宗族的人一樣度過了2018年夏天。
The result was a great wall of wood piled up around their house in Lake Stevens, 35 miles outside of Seattle.
結(jié)果，他們在自己的房子周圍堆起了一座木山。地址位于西雅圖35英里外的史蒂文斯湖。
Technically, it was 40 cords— a cord measures four feet high, four feet wide, and eight feet deep.
嚴(yán)格來講，這堆木頭用了40根繩子——一根繩子綁的木頭有4英尺高，4英尺寬，8英尺深。
To buy that much would cost about $10,000.
買這么多木頭需要花費(fèi)10000美元。
It was too much for the McDaniels to use themselves, and when the weather turned cold that November, Shane started thinking of others.
麥克丹尼爾一家根本用不了這么多木頭，當(dāng)天氣在11月變冷時(shí)，肖恩開始為他人著想。
