America's true unemployment rate may, in fact,be higher than the number provided by the Labor Department, which does not include people who searched for work in vain and have given up, or those who settled for part-time work.

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The labor of his body and the work of his hands, " we may say, are properly his."

他身体的劳作，双手的劳动，我们可以说，是正当地属于他的“

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They structure Frost's work as a poet and his ongoing inquiry into that work. Frost poems perform a kind of phenomenology of work, of labor.

它们构成了他称其为诗人的工作,和他不断的问询，他的诗歌表现出,劳动的现象。

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Mammon is the profiteer. Mammon is the goldsmith's son who wants to invest his talents with labor and with hard work in order to showa profit.

贪神是一位逐利者，他是一名金匠的儿子，想要,用自己的才智，劳动与汗水投资换取利润。

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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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