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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We talk about masks and Oscar Wilde and the nature of performance and the need of artists to pursue their vocations.
  我们还谈到了伪装的面具、奥斯卡王尔德（oscarwilde）、演出的性质，以及艺术家对事业孜孜以求的需要。
• 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。
• 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。
• In this paper, the data of 16 vocations in the industry of Tianjin are dealt with by principal component analysis, cluster analysis and factor analysis.
  对天津市工业中十六个主要行业1997年的数据进行了主成分分析、聚类分析和因子分析。