使ってもっとましなことがいくらでもできたのにできなかったの英語

• there were a million better things someone could have been doing with〔～を〕
  

• まし     まし 増し extra additional less objectionable better preferable
• しな     しな 品 thing article goods dignity article (goods) counter for meal courses 嬌態
• こと     こと 古都 ancient city former capital 事 thing matter fact circumstances business
• とが     とが 都雅 graceful sophisticated
• がい     がい 剴 scythe suitability 我意 self-will obstinacy 凱 victory song 画意 meaning of a
• いく     いく to come to orgasm 幾 some several how many? how much? 畏懼 reverence awe fear
• くら     くら 鞍 saddle 蔵 倉 warehouse cellar magazine granary godown depository treasury
• でも     でも but however
• でき     でき 出来 smart quality
• きた     きた 北 North
• のに     のに in order to so that in spite of although
• なか     なか 中 inside middle among 仲 relation relationship
• た     た 田 rice field 他 other (esp. people and abstract matters) 多 multi- 佗 be proud
• 使って     by use of〔～を〕
• もっと     もっと more longer farther
• ましな     be preferable to
• がいく     がいく 街区 block (of land) 街衢 town
• いくら     いくら 幾ら how much? how many?
• かった     かった カッタ cutter
• 使ってもっとましなことがいくらでもできたのに     there were a million better things someone could have been doing with〔～を〕
• いくらで     how much
• いくらでも     いくらでも 幾らでも as many (much) as one likes