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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Three factors are crucial for the expectation of professional position: chances for graduates choosing their jobs, employment rate, and evaluation of vocations.
  预期职业地位的决定因素包括毕业生选择职业的机会、就业率和职业评价。
• This Law shall not apply to the seafarers serving on ship, which is exclusively for the governmental services, except for the matters in respect of their qualifications, vocations, cultivation, training and dealing of navigation safety and maritime casualties.
  专用于公务用船舶之船员，除有关船员之资格、执业与培训、航行安全与海难处理外，不适用本法之规定。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• General: That the laity and the Christian communities may be responsible promoters of priestly and religious vocations.
  总祈祷意向：愿平信徒和基督徒团体成为司铎和修会圣召负责任的推动者。