the charbonniers, who are chopping down the trees,

烧炭人砍倒树木
slicing them up,

削成木片
as people still do in the Jura, or in the Black Forest,

在汝拉和黑森林
or do anywhere that you can think of in Europe.

或欧洲其他地方(人们都这样做)
In Oregon, where I'm from,

在我老家俄勒冈州
logging was a good way to make money.

伐木是个很赚钱的法子
I never did it, but when you're in college.

我没伐过木但当你们在学校时
And, so, the wood is leaving the forests.

树木正在被运出森林
People are getting even richer and the peasants are out of luck.

富人变得更富但农民就没那么走运了
Why are they out of luck?

为什么他们不走运
Because what the big-money people do that own the forest is

因为那些拥有森林的有钱人做的事情
they do exactly what the wealthy did in England,

和那些在英国的富人做的事情一模一样