分类：教育/科学-外语学习
问题：请求翻译一个英语句子Ifaprovidentialwhisper 
If a vidential whisper had told Murray at the moment a hundred years ago (when at the age of forty he agreed to edit the dictionary)that nine years after the work had started only the letters A and B would have been published, and that he would die at the age of 78 without haIf a vidential whisper had told Murray at the moment a hundred years ago (when at the age of forty he agreed to edit the dictionary)that nine years after the work had started only the letters A and B would have been published, and that he would die at the age of 78 without having quite reached the end of his endeavor, would he ever have set out on such a life work?
回答：providential 幸运的
如果100年前，在默里40岁刚同意编纂这本字典的时候，他幸运地知道在工作开始的9年之后连字典的A词条和B词条都还不会被出版，并且在他78岁时就会搁下远未完成的这项工作离开人世的话， 他还会决定接受这份花费他一生的工作吗？