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I'd say that I was always a person that liked to tinker with stuff, tinker with Legos, so on and so forth.

我是个喜欢修修补补的人，也喜欢拼乐高之类的。

But it wasn't really until I got here to UVA, had access to the woodshop, that I realized that I really liked, you know, woodworking.

但是我是来了弗吉尼亚大学之后，才开始接触木工活，然后才意识到我非常喜欢木工活。

I've been just following the plans and the instructions that I found and that should hold up for a good while. These are a little, there you go. There's some 'shorties.'

我一直都按照说明和指南进行拼装，这些应该能维持相当长一段时间。这里有一个小的，给你。这里有一些比较短的。

This is about a year into an idea to try and make something out of the logs that are, you know, already coming down across campus and to mill some wood.

大概是在一年前，我尝试用那些已经在校园里砍伐下来的原木做一些东西，然后把一些木材加工一下。

All the insides of the kiln will be painted black, but the roof is clear. So, it's going to let the sunlight in and heat up that space a lot.

窑内所有部分都将涂成黑色，但顶部是透明的。这样就可以让阳光照进来，增加窖内的温度。

But at the same time, we need fans to be moving that heated and now more humid air.

但同时，我们也需要风扇来吹动那些已经变热且更加潮湿的空气。

So, we're actually going to have some solar panels out in the front and those will power the fans and push that hot air out and through vents in the doors.

我们会在前面安装一些太阳能电池板，它们将为风扇供电，把热空气通过门上的通风口排出去。

You get that power from the commercial kiln of really, kind of, 'cooking' the wood.

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