vocation
vocation 英 [vəʊˈkeɪʃn] 美 [voʊˈkeɪʃn]
n. 职业；天命，使命感
名词复数:vocations
- Unless you can find someone to pay you to sip fancy tropical drinks on the beach, your vocation is not likely to be a vacation. Rather, the word means something you know how to do––or what you do for a living.
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- n. 职业；天命，使命感
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1. 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。
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2. You missed your vocation—you should have been an actor.
你干错行了，你本该当演员。
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3. He has a vocation for teaching.
他是教书的材料。
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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。
- vocation (n.) early 15c., "spiritual calling," from Old French vocacion "call, consecration; calling, profession" (13c.) or directly from Latin vocationem (nominative vocatio), literally "a calling, a being called" from vocatus "called," past participle of vocare "to call" (from PIE root *wekw- "to speak"). Sense of "one's occupation or profession" is first attested 1550s.
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