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"Am I going to find my treasure?" he asked.
“我能找到我的財寶嗎？”男孩又問。
He stuck his hand into the pouch, and felt around for one of the stones. As he did so, both of them pushed through a hole in the pouch and fell to the ground.
他把手伸進褡褳，剛要拿起一塊寶石，兩塊寶石卻從一個破洞漏了出去。
The boy had never even noticed that there was a hole in his pouch.
男孩從未發現他的褡褳有破洞。
He knelt down to find Urim and Thummim and put them back in the pouch.
他彎腰去撿烏凌和圖明。
But as he saw them lying there on the ground, another phrase came to his mind.
但是，當看到掉在地上的寶石時，他腦海里又浮出另一句話。
"Learn to recognize omens, and follow them," the old king had said.
“要學會尊重預兆，循跡而行。”麥基洗德曾說過。
An omen. The boy smiled to himself.
這是個預兆。男孩暗自笑了。
He picked up the two stones and put them back in his pouch.
然后，他從地上撿起那兩塊寶石，放進褡褳。
He didn't consider mending the hole—the stones could fall through any time they wanted.
他不想把那破洞縫上，只要寶石愿意，盡可以從那里溜出去。
He had learned that there were certain things one shouldn't ask about, so as not to flee from one's own personal legend.
男孩已經明白了，有些事情是不應該問的，不能逃避自己的天命。
"I promised that I would make my own decisions," he said to himself.
我曾許下諾言，自己的事自己決定，他暗自思忖。
But the stones had told him that the old man was still with him, and that made him feel more confident.
寶石已經告訴他，老人并未拋下他不管，這令他信心倍增。
He looked around at the empty plaza again, feeling less desperate than before.
他重新環顧了一圈空蕩蕩的市場，先前的絕望已經蕩然無存。
This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.
這不是陌生的世界，這是個嶄新的世界。
After all, what he had always wanted was just that: to know new places.
其實，他期望的恰恰就是認識新天地。
Even if he never got to the Pyramids, he had already traveled farther than any shepherd he knew.
即便永遠到不了金字塔，他也比任何一個他認識的牧羊人走得遠。
Oh, if they only knew how different things are just two hours by ship from where they are, he thought.
要是他們知道兩個小時船程的地方，竟有這么多新鮮事物，該作何感想啊？
Although his new world at the moment was just an empty marketplace, he had already seen it when it was teeming with life, and he would never forget it.
展現在他面前的新天地雖然只是個空蕩蕩的市場，但他已經領略過了充斥市場的勃勃生機，并永遠不會忘懷。
He remembered the sword. It hurt him a bit to think about it, but he had never seen one like it before.
他想起了那把寶劍，看它一眼所付出的代價可謂高昂，但他畢竟見到了他過去從未見過的稀罕物。
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
他突然覺得，被騙之后，他可以像個倒霉的受害者一樣看待世界，也可以像個尋寶的冒險家那樣觀察世界。
"I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure."
男孩想：我是個尋寶的冒險家。
