vocation

名词职业，使命; 神召，天命

名词

1. 使命;天职
    If you have a vocation, 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.

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. 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。

2. （认为特别适合自己的）工作，职业
    If you refer to your job or profession as your vocation, you feel that you are particularly suited to it.

    e.g. Her vocation is her work as an actress...
           她的职业就是当演员。
    e.g. She has no vocation for teaching.
           她不是当老师的料。

1. This year he took five days off over the Labor Day Golden Week - the longest vocation he has ever taken.

2. Instead of encouraging more dedication to teaching, the award will actually discourage more teachers from devoting themselves to the vocation.

3. Nuns will fill out a profile including information about their life and vocation as well as a photograph.

4. vocation什么意思

4. This legal vocation that has existed since ancient times is banned wrongly in a new age that stresses the rule of law and human rights.

5. Many teachers slip a summer reading list and hordes of math questions into their students'backpacks as they send them off for vocation.

6. The vocation for university students is predicted to begin on January 10 next year, with the peak return period falling between January 10 and 15.

7. He lives in seclusion, haunted by the ghosts of his vocation.

8. Examinees wait for interviews at a vocation promotion meeting for models and flight attendants on Jan 4 in Qingdao.

9. Wang said he must be able to sleep on any type of bed and eat any type of food to survive his vocation.

10. Woods has talked about designing golf courses for the last several years, a vocation of nearly all of the top players.

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