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

• 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。
• Students and teachers can travel on a half ticket during winter and summer vocations.
  学生和老师在寒暑假旅行时可以享受半价优惠。
• The development of information technology has made all vocations facing to new opportunity and challenge which never been before.
  信息技术的飞速发展，使各行各业面临前所未有的机遇和挑战。
• 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。
• 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！
• The first four vocations were peasants, workers, students, and job-waiting/ laid-off workers in turn.
  前4位职业依次为农民、工人、学生、待业/下岗者。
• You really ought to take some time off. Vocations in the open are fine for the whole family.
  的确应该休一休假。户外休假对全家很适宜。
• They are not clear about their own characters and abilities, the vocations which are closely related to their major, whether be engaged in their majors as well as how to make their own occupation plan.
  表现在对自身认识不清；对与自己专业联系紧密的行业形势模糊不清；对是否从事自己的专业以及如何进行职业规划没有明确概念。
• The periodicals distribute in different departments and vocations.
  期刊分布于不同的部门和行业等。
• 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。