他为这么晚才发现这“如此美妙的发明”感到遗憾，但还是学习了银版照相的课程，并委托他人拍摄和收集照片。

Regretting that "such a wonderful invention" had arrived so late in his lifetime, he still took lessons in daguerreotyping, and both commissioned and collected photographs.

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你要我们为你感到遗憾吗，亲爱的没工作的人？

Do you want us to feel sorry for you, dear unemployed person?

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我们为那些必须依靠父母或亲戚生活的夫妇感到遗憾！

And we pity the couple who must share their home with their parent, let alone with other relatives.

youdao

Probably nobody After all, Larry never even exists ? How can we feel sorry for Larry?

也许没有人,毕竟，Larry从未存在过,我们怎么可能为Larry感到遗憾？

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And from the fact, even if we were to agree with it, that it would've been better if we hadn't been born-- instead of feeling sorry for unborn Larry, Larry perhaps we should envy unborn Larry; that's what the pessimists say-- even if that were true, it wouldn't follow that suicide was an appropriate response.

从这个事实讲，即使我们同意，我们没有出生更好-,与其为没出生的Larry感到遗憾，也许我们应该嫉妒未出生的;,这正是悲观主义者的观点-,即使这是对的，也得不出自杀是适合的回应的结论。

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