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He posted on Facebook: "IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF FIREWOOD AND CANNOT AFFORD IT, PLEASE PM [personal message] ME! ...
他在臉書上發了一個貼：“如果你需要木柴，而且買不起的話，請給我發消息。
If you know someone who BURNS WOOD, and they're looking at a cold house this holiday season, please help us help them.
如果你知道某人燒木頭，并且他們這個假日季要受凍的話，請幫助我幫助他們。
Please help me and my boys make sure NO ONE GOES COLD IN OUR HOOD." The response was immediate.
請幫助我和我的兒子，確保我們的鄰里無人受凍。”然后立即就有人回復了。
One man offered to donate a wood-burning furnace. Others raced over to Norm's, the mini-mart Shane owns, with more wood for the pile.
一名男子提出捐出一個燒木頭的火爐。其他人則跑到肖恩的小超市Norm's那里，送上更多的木頭。
One woman, noticing the photo of the buff McDaniel men in the Facebook post,
一名女子看到臉書帖子里體格健壯的麥克丹尼爾。
started to feel warm in other ways: "Please post more pictures of you in sleeveless shirts.
開始在其他方面感到溫暖：“請多發一些你穿無袖襯衫的照片。
I don't need the wood. But truly I appreciate the eye candy!"
我不需要木頭。我需要的是養眼之物！”
Single mom Katelyn Ticer, 29, and her four-year-old daughter rely on a wood-burning stove as their sole source of heat,
29歲的單身母親凱特琳·提瑟和她4歲的女兒靠燒木柴的爐子取暖，
so it was a relief to receive a truckload of firewood from the McDaniels before the holidays.
因此，在假期前收到一卡車來自麥克丹尼爾斯的木柴，這減輕了我們的壓力。
"To get that much wood brought me to tears," she told msn.com.
她告訴msn網，收到那么多木頭讓我熱淚盈眶。
"So much stress and anxiety is off my shoulders. I couldn't be more thankful." Not every recipient is as effusive.
“我肩上的壓力和焦慮減輕了很多。我真是感激不盡?！辈⒉皇撬械慕邮照叨寄敲礋崆檠笠纭?/div>
"Some aren't even friendly. It's just not in them," Shane says.
肖恩說，“有些人甚至都不禮貌。他們就不是那種人?！?/div>
"They are mad at the world and mad that they had to ask for help. They just have no other option than freezing." But Shane is OK with that.
“他們對這個世界感到憤怒，對不得不尋求幫助感到憤怒。除了挨凍，他們別無選擇。”但肖恩不在意這個。
"Giving is the reward," he says. "It has nothing to do with how well it's received; it's about how much it's needed."
“給予就是回報，”他說?！斑@與它被接受的程度無關；而是與需要的程度有關?！?/p>
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| recipient | [ri'sipiənt] |
想一想再看 n. 接受者，收信人 |
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| candy | ['kændi] |
想一想再看 n. 糖果 |
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| stove | [stəuv] |
想一想再看 n. 爐子，火爐窯;烘房；【主英】溫室 |
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| damp | [dæmp] |
想一想再看 adj. 潮濕的，有濕氣的，沮喪的 |
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| relief | [ri'li:f] |
想一想再看 n. 減輕，解除，救濟(品), 安慰，浮雕，對比 |
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| effusive | [i'fju:siv] |
想一想再看 adj. 流出的，感情奔放的 |
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| stress | [stres] |
想一想再看 n. 緊張，壓力 |
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| immediate | [i'mi:djət] |
想一想再看 adj. 立即的，即刻的，直接的，最接近的 |
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| source | [sɔ:s] |
想一想再看 n. 發源地，來源，原始資料 |
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| appreciate | [ə'pri:ʃieit] |
想一想再看 vt. 欣賞，感激，賞識 |
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