He worked as a laborer for several different companies.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

That a free laborer is a mobile laborer, especially in a society like the United States that had this thing called The West, the limitless apparently to them anyway--boundless West.

自由劳动者是流动的,尤其处在美国这样的社会,有他们所说的广袤的西部,特别对他们来说,无边际的西部

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Why? Because the labor is the unquestionable property of the laborer " and therefore, no one but the laborer can have a right to what is joined to or mixed with his labor.

为什么，因为劳动是劳动者无可争议的所有物,《政府论》第五章，“论财产“,因此除这名劳动者以外,对他施加或掺进劳动的所有物，别人没有所有权。

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He worked as an unskilled laborer.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

But Milton portrays himself as a laborer here, a poet who by labor and intense study actually has to work to produce the great poem. Milton's divine vocation, his calling, seems in this light to be something like a vocation in the modern sense: it's a job that exacts work or labor.

但弥尔顿把他自己描绘成一个工人,一个只能通过努力学习来创作出,伟大诗歌的诗人，弥尔顿的神圣的使命，他的天职，就此而论就像现代意义上的职业了：,一份要求工作和劳动的职业。

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