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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Consider setting up a panel discussion featuring representatives of different, but related, vocations& for example, a city planner, an architect, and a building contractor.
  可以考虑举行一个小组讨论会，邀请不同但相关的职业的代表来参加，例如都市设计师、建筑师、及建筑包商。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。