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

• Three factors are crucial for the expectation of professional position: chances for graduates choosing their jobs, employment rate, and evaluation of vocations.
  预期职业地位的决定因素包括毕业生选择职业的机会、就业率和职业评价。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Let parents choose betimes the vocations and courses they mean their children should take;
  为父母者当及时选择在他们意中他们底子嗣所当从事的职业及训练；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。