vocation 的定义
- a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling.
- a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career.
- a divine call to God's service or to the Christian life.
- a function or station in life to which one is called by God: the religious vocation; the vocation of marriage.
vocation 近义词
life's work
更多vocation例句
- Over the course of three deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, during which she flew 89 combat missions and then served as “a ground-based problem solver,” McGrath had to reckon with the violent nature of her vocation.
- For the few women who were in athletics, sports were seen as more a hobby than a vocation.
- The Jameses say that of all the vocations they’ve studied, professional athletes are among the most enthusiastic about sleep and even napping.
- Though he eventually lost the girl, he gained a vocation, and, in 2009, at the age of 20, he joined American Medical Response.
- Unfortunately the church has routinely forgotten its vocation.
- “The golden age of Parisian smiles nurtured, and was nurtured by, the rise of dentistry as a vocation,” writes Jones.
- It was only once he directed and starred in his own short film that he decided to pursue acting as a vocation.
- He was highly esteemed in the fashion world, but his real vocation was fulfilled in the evening hours.
- History has no shortage of vocation-induced tragi-ironic deaths.
- In short, this Austin native needs to make some hard decisions about his vocation.
- And everything else is certainly in keeping with our dwelling and our vocation in life, that is, poverty.
- We engaged an experienced hack-driver, who combined with his vocation the qualities of a well informed guide as well.
- Has it never occurred to you, my dear Miss Warrender, that it might be your vocation, your natural aim in life.
- A divinity presided over bakers, another over ovens,--every vocation and every household transaction had its presiding deities.
- Another and more serious question for the clergyman is that of the vocation in life of those who are weak mentally.