| 单词 | vocation |
| 释义 | vocationWord family adjectivevocationalnounvocationalismvocationadverbvocationally Occupations vo·ca·tion /vəʊˈkeɪʃən $ voʊ-/ noun [countableC, uncountableU] 1 a) the feeling that the purpose of your life is to do a particular type of work, especially because it allows you to help other people 使命感；天职 vocation for Jan has a vocation for teaching. 简对教书有一种使命感。 a strong sense of vocation 强烈的使命感 You missed your vocation (=you would have been good at a particular job). 你入错行了。 b) a particular type of work that you feel is right for you 〔认为适合自己的〕工作，职业 At 17 she found her true vocation as a writer. 17岁时她找到了自己真正的使命——当一名作家。 2. BOPURPOSEa strong belief that you have been chosen by God to be a priest or a nun 神召；天职，〔宗教上的〕使命感 Examples from the Corpus vocation• Nursing is hard work and often low paid, but for many people it is a vocation.• Had vocation advisors been around they would doubtless have recommended a commercial future on the scientific side.• This was not the inspiration for her vocation.• At times the yoke of his vocation was almost unbearable, although there is no indication that he ever regretted assuming it.• As in the lives of many artists, illness revealed his vocation.• His real vocation was the river.• He was quite young when he decided he had a religious vocation. missed ... vocation• He thought he had missed his vocation and indeed he had. From Longman Business Dictionary vocationvo·ca·tion /vəʊˈkeɪʃənvoʊ-/ noun [countableC]JOB a job, especially one that involves helping people, that you do because you enjoy it or because you have a strong feeling that it is the purpose of your life to do it As a nurse, she felt she had found her vocation. Sam had missed his vocation - he would have made a perfect lawyer. (1400-1500) Latin vocatio “call, summons”, from vocare “to call” |
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