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lifework

/lahyf-wurk/US // ˈlaɪfˈwɜrk //

生活工作,生活作业,生活功课,生命作业

Related Words

business业务,商业,企业,生意career职业生涯,职业,事业,职业发展purpose目的,宗旨,用途,目标work工作,工,作业,劳动profession专业,职业,行业,专业性mission任务,使命,使命感,宗旨pursuit追求,追逐,追寻,追捕interest利益,利益关系,利益驱动,利益相关者vocation天职,职责,职务,职分occupation职业,占领,占据,占用

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounperson's calling
Synonyms
business业务,商业,企业,生意career职业生涯,职业,事业,职业发展interest利益,利益关系,利益驱动,利益相关者mission任务,使命,使命感,宗旨occupation职业,占领,占据,占用profession专业,职业,行业,专业性purpose目的,宗旨,用途,目标pursuit追求,追逐,追寻,追捕vocation天职,职责,职务,职分work工作,工,作业,劳动

Examples

  • In 1966, George E. Vaillant, a 32 year-old psychiatrist, was put in charge of the study, and it became his lifework.

  • His keen practical nature grasped the religious situation in Paris (City and University), and suggested his lifework.

  • We've had several lifework meetings lately, and the needs of the world have been pretty strongly stated.

  • It is revealed in every enterprise he undertook, in every book he wrote, in his whole lifework.

  • The nobility of their lifework is woven and cemented deeply in the hearts of the people.

  • I may as well add a few more such extracts, as strictly within the text of "My Lifework."

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