vocation

[vəʊˈkeɪʃn]

基础释义

纠错

n.
职业，使命;神召，天命;

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复数: vocations

更新时间：2025-12-22 15:29:22

词义辨析

profession，job，occupation，trade，vocation，career，work，employment

这些名词都含“职业”之意。

profession以前常指要受过高等教育(尤指法律、医学和神学)才能获得的职业，现在一般指为谋生之职，尤指从事脑力劳动和受过专门训练，具有某种专业知识的工作。

job 泛指一切有报酬的工作。

occupation泛指任何一种职业，比job正式，经常用于书面填表中。

trade指技巧、技能型职业。

vocation较正式用词，语气庄重，有专业及天职之意，以前常用于教会中的职位。

career指经过专门训练，终身愿意从事的职业。

work指任何种类的工作，也泛指职业。

employment指受雇的工作，通常能比较稳定领取工资。

速记技巧

词源记忆法

来自拉丁语vocare，说，呼唤，词源同voice，vow。原义为灵魂的召唤，引申词义职业。词义演变参照calling，召唤，使命感，职业。

近/反义词

近义词

知识拓展

同根词汇

vocation adj.vocational职业的，行业的adv.vocationally职业上地；职业性地

双语例句

更多例句

1、

Government and vocation are the key points in outdoor advertising administration , but ofare lack of responsibility.

政府和行业组织是户外广告管理中的关键因素, 然而角色缺失必须重视.
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2、

Make authorship your avocation, not your vocation.

把写作当作你的副业, 不要把它当作正业.
来源：《简明英汉词典》
3、

His deformity totally disabled him from following his vocation.

他的残疾使他完全失去了从事他的职业的能力.
来源：《现代汉英综合大词典》
4、

She is a doctor with a strong sense of vocation.

她是一位具有强烈使命感的医生。
来源：《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
5、

Her vocation is her work as an actress...

她的职业就是当演员。
来源：《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
6、

He found his vocation in ornithology.

他发现自己适于专攻鸟类学.
来源：《简明英汉词典》
7、

You missed your vocation─you should have been an actor.

你干错行了，你本该当演员。
来源：《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
8、

You will not make a good teacher, unless you feel teaching is your vocation.

除非你觉得教书是你的天职,否则你不会成为一位好老师.
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9、

She feels that she missed her vocation by not working with children.

她觉得自己没有从事跟小孩子打交道的工作是入错了行.
来源：《简明英汉词典》
10、

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。
来源：《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
11、

To be engaged in ( a vocation or hobby, for example ).

从事 ( 例如,一种职业或爱好 )
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12、

She struggled for years to find her true vocation.

她多年来苦苦寻找真正适合自己的职业.
来源：《简明英汉词典》
13、

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。
来源：《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
14、

Even if we could have taken the vacation, but we mightn't have wanted to.

即使我们可以休假, 我们也可能不去休呢.
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15、

It became urgent that I should have a vocation of some kind.

我要找个什么职业,这已经是迫不急待的事了.
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16、

She believes that she has found her true vocation in life.

她相信自己找到了真正适合自己的生活方式。
来源：《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
17、

This a good day for practical ideas and planning about your work or vocation.

这是个适合实际想法和计划工作或度假的好日子.
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18、

What are Jim and Jack doing in this autumn vacation?

吉姆和杰克计划这个秋假做什么 ?
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19、

People may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves.

人们可能都有自己的天赋,只是他们本人还不太清楚.
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20、

She felt it was her vocation to minister to the sick.

她觉得照料病人是她的天职.
来源：《简明英汉词典》
21、

Although a physician by vocation, he is a botanist by avocation.

虽然他的职业是医生, 却又是一个业余的植物学家.
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22、

She has no vocation for teaching.

她不是当老师的料。
来源：《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
23、

Career psychological guidance, which is different from traditional vocation psychological guidance.

生涯心理辅导不同于传统的职业心理辅导.
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24、

a vocation to the priesthood

司铎圣召
来源：《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
25、

You should be an actor you've missed your vocation, ie you are following the wrong career.

你应该当演员 -- 你入错行了.
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26、

Nursing is not just a job─it's a vocation.

护理不仅仅是一项工作，而且还是一种职业。
来源：《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
27、

Indicate the name of the employment, office, trade, profession or vocation.

填报有关聘任、职位、行业、专业工作或职业的名称.
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28、

Isn't marriage your vocation?

难道出嫁不是你的本分吗 ?
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29、

He has a vocation for teaching.

他是教书的材料。
来源：《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
30、

We can say on nowise the ground, the social every vocation is already inseparable with software.

我们可以毫不夸张地说, 社会各行各业都与软件已经密不可分.
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