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So many missed opportunities
良機錯失何其多
As Ali sat motionless in front of his late father's hut, made of mud molder, a mournful look on his face.
艾里一動不動地坐在他已故父親那座用灰泥漿砌成的小屋前，滿面悲哀。
His father had passed away a week earlier, his moral remains cremated.
他父親在一星期前去世了，遺體已經被火化。
Ali, who had walked all the way home from Abidjan for 5 days and as many nights was in morning.
艾里得知噩耗從阿必得澗趕回家中，一路走了五天五夜。
He was now all alone in this world, his mother having died in child birth.
現在他一人在家服喪，這個世界上只剩他孤零零的一個人了，他母親因難產已去世。
What a moron I was, not to have the motivation to go to university while the old man was still around and able to pay.
我真是個白癡！老頭在世時還有能力支付我上大學的費用，而我居然連上大學的動機都沒有！
If only I'd had a motive for doing something constructive. Ali thought to himself.
要是那時我就有從事建設性事業的動機該多好！艾里自言自語道。
The old man was always used to arranging for everything.
老頭在世的時候總是把一切都安排好了，
The opportunities he offered me were a multiple of what was available to the other young men from my village.
他給我提供的機會比起我們村里的其他年輕人來說要多出幾倍。
Ali shrugged his shoulders. He was mortified as he contemplated his future prospects.
艾里聳聳肩。想到將來，他感到很難堪。
Whatever is going to motivate me now? how can I get my wasted life in motion?
現在究竟有什么可以激發我向前呢？我怎樣才能把我已經浪費的生命重新運作起來呢？
He thought to himself.
他苦苦思索著。
One motive kept reoccurring, study. How much he now wish to take up some serious study!
有一個念頭不斷閃現：學習！現在他多么希望他曾經認認真真地學習過。
Of all the multiple and manifold choices his father had offered him, morphology must have been the most multi-fascinated subjects.
在他父親曾經提供給他的多種多樣的選擇中，形態學應該算是最具多樣性的一門學科了。
The study of how multi-sally organisms form into plants animals, then multiply to form a multitude of species was fascinating to Ali.
多細胞組織如何形成一種種植物和動物，然后又如何繁殖成如此大量的物種，這些對艾里來說都極具吸引力。
It is a truly exciting subject. Ali thought to himself.
這確實是一個很誘入的學科，艾里想，
There is nothing at all mundane about it.
這門學科的確是卓爾不群非同凡響。
