If it was ever intended that I should go across salt water, do you suppose Providence would have cast my lot in an island?

If it was ever intended that I should go across salt water, do you suppose Providence would have cast my lot in an island?

如果我曾经想过要穿过咸水，你认为上帝会把我的命运安排在一个岛上吗?

-- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯