That engineer from the town, good man—better perhaps, if he had not discovered the lad in his youth and taken him up to make something out of him; the child had lost his roothold, and suffered thereby.

镇上的那个工程师，好人——如果他没有在他年轻的时候发现这个小伙子并把他带走，也许会更好；孩子失去了根基，因此受苦。