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

Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.
扶轮是一个实业和专业领导人士的世界性组织，它提供了人道服务，并在所有职业里去鼓励高伦理道德标准，更在世界中去协助增进亲善与和平。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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 periodicals distribute in different departments and vocations.
期刊分布于不同的部门和行业等。
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。
There are significant differences in the results of the parents who read to their preschool children among the different educational levels and vocations.
父母不同的教育程度及不同职业在亲子共讀结果上有显著差異存在。