After he left school, he tried his hand at a variety of jobs—bricklayer, cinema usher, coal man.离开学校后，他尝试过各种工作，如泥瓦匠、电影院引座员、运煤工。He worked as a bricklayer's mate.他给一个砖匠当小工。His father had been a bricklayer by trade.他父亲以前的职业是砖瓦工。As a bricklayer he was not worth a tinker's damn.他做砖瓦工全不顶事。He apprenticed his son to a bricklayer.他把儿子送去当泥水匠的徒弟。