vocations

英 [vəʊˈkeɪʃənz]

美 [voʊˈkeɪʃənz]

n.  (认为特别适合自己的)工作，职业，生活方式; (认为某种工作或生活方式特别适合自己的)信心，使命感; 圣召; 神召
vocation的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 使命;天职
  If you have avocation, you have a strong feeling that you are especially suited to do a particular job or to fulfil a particular role in life, especially one which involves helping other people.
  1. It could well be that he has a real vocation...
     很可能他是找到了自己真正的使命。
  2. Diana was a young mission school teacher convinced of her vocation to provide support for her schoolgirl pupils.
     黛安娜是教会学校的一名年轻老师，她深信帮助学校的女学生是其天职。
• N-VAR （认为特别适合自己的）工作，职业
  If you refer to your job or profession as yourvocation, you feel that you are particularly suited to it.
  1. Her vocation is her work as an actress...
     她的职业就是当演员。
  2. She has no vocation for teaching.
     她不是当老师的料。

双语例句

• In this paper, the data of 16 vocations in the industry of Tianjin are dealt with by principal component analysis, cluster analysis and factor analysis.
  对天津市工业中十六个主要行业1997年的数据进行了主成分分析、聚类分析和因子分析。
• Persons with special vocations and with various acute and chronic disorders influencing the bone metabolism were excluded.
  特殊职业者及患有各种影响骨代谢的急、慢性疾病者均除外。
• The periodicals distribute in different departments and vocations.
  期刊分布于不同的部门和行业等。
• They, too, hope to broaden the appeal or outreach of hobbies, vocations, and other interests.
  他们也希望扩展其嗜好、职业、与其他兴趣的吸引力心范围。
• The professional ethics of judges essentially differs from that of common vocations, for judges play special role in the society of rule of law.
  法官的职业伦理与普通行业的职业伦理有着本质的区别，这是法律职业特点和法官承担的特殊职能所决定的。
• Challenge: Today I can plan a special sacrifice for vocations.
  挑战：今天，我要为圣召，准备一次特殊的牺牲。
• There are much more peaceful vocations one can pursue: working as an artist perhaps, or a software engineer, or even a gardener.
  你可以从事许多平和得多的职业：做一名艺术家、软件工程师或园丁。
• Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.
  扶轮是一个实业和专业领导人士的世界性组织，它提供了人道服务，并在所有职业里去鼓励高伦理道德标准，更在世界中去协助增进亲善与和平。
• During this process, differentiation of vocations will directly result in peasants? class differentiation.
  在这个过程中，职业的分化将直接导致农民群体内部的分化。
• There are significant differences in the results of the parents who read to their preschool children among the different educational levels and vocations.
  父母不同的教育程度及不同职业在亲子共讀结果上有显著差異存在。