vocation

单词音标

vocation音标[vәu\'keiʃәn]

汉语翻译

n. 职业, 天命, 天职, 才能, 行业

【法】 行业, 职业, 职业上的才能

词意辨析

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

这些名词均含“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。

英语解释

名词 vocation:

the particular occupation for which you are trained

同义词：career, calling

a body of people doing the same kind of work

同义词：occupational group

例句

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

牙医在工作的时候，是往嘴里瞧／垂头丧气。

Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

每个工作日象假日一样，平时节日的来临被抱怨为是对他们正全神贯注的工作的强行中断。

He has little vocation for teaching.

他不是教书的材料。

Nursing is a vocation as well as a profession.

护理工作既是职业又是救死扶伤的责任。

详细解释

vo.ca.tion

n.（名词）

A regular occupation, especially one for which a person is particularly suited or qualified.

行业，职业：正规的工作，尤指一个人特别适合或尤其有资格胜任的职业

An inclination, as if in response to a summons, to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; a calling.

神召，天命：担负起某种工作，尤指宗教事业的一种倾向，如同响应神召一样；呼唤

来源：

Middle English vocacioun [divine call to a religious life]

中古英语 vocacioun [过宗教生活的神的召唤]

from Old French vocation

源自 古法语 vocation

from Latin voc3tiô voc3tiôn- [a calling]

源自 拉丁语 voc3tiô voc3tiôn- [呼叫]

from voc3tus [past participle of] voc3re [to call] * see wek w-

源自 voc3tus [] voc3re的过去分词 [叫唤] *参见 wek w-