Or has my probable advancement to riches and honour, given this scruple birth?

还是我有可能因为这种顾忌出生而走向富贵？

Riches and honours prevent a man from enlarging his understanding, and enervate all his powers, by reversing the order of nature, which has ever made true pleasure the reward of labour.

财富和荣誉阻碍了一个人扩大他的理解力， 并削弱了他所有的力量， 因为自然界的秩序一向使真正的快乐成为劳动的回报。

I think there would have been something ironic in the picture of the successful old man, rich and honoured, living in another the life which he, though knowing it was the better part, had not had the strength to pursue.

我会着力描写一下这位成功的老人，又阔绰又有名望，但是他知道这不是真正的生活，他自己所无力寻求的，他要在这个年轻人身上体验到；我想这种构思未尝没有讽刺意味。