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Four years ago, country music star Brad Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, helped create a free food store in Nashville, Tennessee.
四年前，鄉村音樂明星布拉德·佩斯利和他的妻子——女演員金伯利·威廉姆斯-佩斯利——在田納西州納什維爾幫助創辦了一家免費食品店。
Their goal was to give families in need the ability to choose their own food in a place that felt like a normal store.
他們的目標是讓有需要的家庭能夠在一個感覺像普通商店的地方選擇自己的食物。
They named it The Store.
他們把它命名為The Store。
The Store is a partnership with Nashville's Belmont University, where Paisley earned his degree.
The Store與納什維爾的貝爾蒙特大學合作，佩斯利就是在那里獲得學位的。
The Store is turning into a free toy store ahead of the Christmas holiday.
The Store將會在圣誕節假期前變成一家免費玩具店。
The event began Friday.
該活動于周五開始。
For two days, chosen families could pick out new toys, video games, stuffed animals, makeup and other gifts.
在兩天的時間里，被選中的家庭可以挑選新玩具、視頻游戲、布絨玩具、化妝品和其他禮物。
Paisley said, "The emotional aspect of being able to give your child something your child wanted versus just something to sort of get you through the holidays…that's such a load off the minds of somebody who maybe didn't think they were going to be able to do that."
佩斯利說：“能夠給孩子想要的東西所獲得的情感價值比只是度過假期的高，因為那讓那些可能認為自己無法做到這一點的人松了一口氣。”
Paisley and Williams-Paisley brought the idea of a free food store to Nashville after seeing a similar effort in California.
佩斯利和威廉姆斯-佩斯利在加州看到類似的活動后，將開一家免費食品店的想法帶到了納什維爾。
The Store launched in early 2020.
The Store于2020年初開業。
Its opening came just weeks after a powerful tornado hit the area and shortly before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
就在商店開業幾周前（在新冠疫情開始前不久），一場強大的龍卷風襲擊了該地區。
The pandemic made food access an urgent problem.
新冠疫情使獲取食物成為一個緊迫的問題。
The Store changed its methods to meet people's needs.
The Store為了滿足人們的需求改變了方法。
It turned into a food delivery service for older people.
它變成了一種面向老年人的送餐服務。
It delivered one million meals in its first year of operation.
它在運營的第一年就送出了100萬份餐食。
Along with the food store, Belmont University also offers additional services to families in need.
除了食品店，貝爾蒙特大學還為有需要的家庭提供額外的服務。
They include financial education and music therapy.
其中包括金融教育和音樂治療。
"People come on hard times and we want this to be a safe, welcoming place for everybody, whether you're volunteering or whether you're needing the services," Williams-Paisley said.
威廉姆斯-佩斯利說：“人們在困難時期來到這里，我們希望這里對每個人來說都是一個安全、友好的地方，無論你是志愿者還是需要服務的人。”
"It's just a community and we're all in it together."
“這里只是一個社區，我們都在其中?！?/p>
For this year's toy store event, The Store received about 2,000 donated objects and raised $20,000.
在今年的玩具商店活動中，The Store收到了大約2000件捐贈物品，籌集了2萬美元。
Volunteers and workers from Belmont University in Nashville spent hours opening and organizing all of the donated toys into different areas.
來自納什維爾貝爾蒙特大學的志愿者和工作人員花了幾個小時打開和整理所有捐贈的玩具，并將其分配到不同的區域。
Parents will be able to drop off their kids at a religious center nearby, where they can play and drink a hot chocolate.
父母可以把孩子送到附近的宗教中心，在那里他們可以玩耍和喝巧克力熱飲。
The adults can pick out gifts at the same time.
大人們同時也可以挑選禮物。
Paisley said Christmas is his favorite time of year.
佩斯利說，圣誕節是他一年中最喜歡的時間。
He said he might even visit The Store dressed as Santa Claus, the make-believe person who brings gifts for children on Christmas.
他說，他甚至可能會打扮成圣誕老人的樣子去The Store，圣誕老人是在圣誕節給孩子們送禮物的虛構人物。
"I live for this time of year," Paisley said.
佩斯利說：“我為一年中的這個時候而活”。
"Ever since we've had children and possibly even before, I kind of go all out."
“自從我們有了孩子，甚至可能在這之前，我就全力以赴了。”
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