He was dealt a bad hand at birth and now he spent his life in dead-end jobs, working in horrible monotony, which by this point, had turned him rather bitter and apathetic.

他一出生就被打了一手烂牌， 现在他一生都在死胡同里工作，在可怕的单调中工作， 到那时，这已经使他变得相当痛苦和冷漠。