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

• Most of the private prophecies of the saints and servants of God were concerned with individuals, their death, recovery from illness, or vocations.
  大部分的私人预言圣徒和仆人上帝的人关注个人，他们的死，恢复从生病，或职业。
• He may have done a little in all these vocations, Mr Lockwood; but I couldn't give my word for any.
  也许这些职业他都干过一点，洛克乌德先生，可是我说不出他究竟干了什么，我声明过我不知道他怎么搞到钱的！
• However, many programmer/ musicians might be unaware of an interesting area in which their vocations and avocations intersect: algorithmic music composition.
  不过，许多程序员/音乐家可能没有意识到这样一个能让他们的职业和业余爱好统一起来的有意思的领域：算法作曲。
• Then after the combination of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of statistical analysis, the common features and the disparity because of ages, education backgrounds, vocations, and incomes will be observed.
  然后通过数据统计分析等定量研究方法与定性分析相结合，得出青岛女性旅游者特征的共同性，及在不同年龄、不同文化程度、不同职业以及不同收入等因素影响下的差异性。
• 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。
• 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。
• We talk about masks and Oscar Wilde and the nature of performance and the need of artists to pursue their vocations.
  我们还谈到了伪装的面具、奥斯卡王尔德（oscarwilde）、演出的性质，以及艺术家对事业孜孜以求的需要。
• The periodicals distribute in different departments and vocations.
  期刊分布于不同的部门和行业等。
• When the teachers chase to the development of their profession, they also should form the awareness of experience sharing, and the schools should encourage teachers to make various development of vocations.
  教师在积极追求专业成长的同时，要形成经验分享的意识，鼓励教师角色和职务的多元化发展。
• Let parents choose betimes the vocations and courses they mean their children should take;
  为父母者当及时选择在他们意中他们底子嗣所当从事的职业及训练；