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I had no visible impediments without, nor any ungovernable passion within.
我沒有能看得見的阻礙，也沒有難于駕馭的激情。
I regarded knowledge as the highest honor, and the most engaging pleasure;
我將知識看做是最高榮譽和最愉悅的快樂。
yet day stole upon day, and month glided after month, till I found that seven years of the first ten had vanished, and left nothing behind them.
然而日復一日，月復一月，我發現最初十年有七年都荒廢虛度了。
"I now postponed my purpose of traveling; for why should I go abroad, while so much remained to be learned at home?
我不得不推遲旅行打算，在家里有這么多東西要學，為什么還要出去呢？
I immured myself for four years, and studied the laws of the empire.
我自我幽閉了四年，專心學習帝國的法律。
The fame of my skill reached the judges: I was found able to speak upon doubtful questions, and I was commanded to stand at the footstool of the caliph.
我掌握的法律知識已經夠得上法官了，發現自己也能對一些懷疑的問題做出解答了，于是我被派到哈里發的王座旁站立。
I was heard with attention; I was consulted with confidence, and the love of praise fastened on my heart.
我用心傾聽，滿懷信心地說出自己的意見，得到贊揚那種欣喜很快流滿了心田。
"I still wished to see distant countries;
我仍舊希望親眼見識一下遙遠的他國，
listened with rapture to the relations of travelers, and resolved some time to ask my dismission, that I might feast my soul with novelty;
極度歡喜地聆聽旅行歸來的人講述他們的見聞，下決心找時間請求免職，這樣我的靈魂就能享受新奇事物的饕餮了。
but my presence was always necessary, and the stream of business hurried me along.
可是，我的存在始終不可或缺，繁忙的公事讓我喘不過氣來。
