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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Allison products cover a wide range of vocations including refuse, fire, off-highway, airport ground equipment, pick up and delivery, transit, intercity buses, coach and specialty vehicles.
  艾里逊产品用途广泛，包括垃圾、消防、非公路、机场服务设备、轻卡和运货、城市城间客车、旅游车和特种车辆。