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

• 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。
• 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。
• With these incidents, Tang Ying consulted experts from various vocations for measures in emergency.
  通过这些案例，唐颖向各行各业的专家请教了很多自我防范和应急的方法。
• So the key strategy for China's vocational education in the next ten or twenty years is to improve the vocational abilities of people with secondary vocations, better the structure of the work force and rationalize the structure of demand for workers.
  按照这一发展目标，在今后的十年、二十年，我国职业技术教育的核心战略是提高中等职业人才的职业能力，改善劳动力结构，逐步使社会对劳动力需求结构趋于合理。
• 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！
• 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；
• 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。
• Principles for establishing majors in institutions of high vocations and objectives for training talented people with majors should demonstrate features of direction, adaptability and practicality of vocational posts.
  高职院校专业设置的原则、专业的人才培养目标都应该体现职业岗位的针对性、适应性和应用性特点。
• 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。
• 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。