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vocation

/voh-key-shuhn/US // voʊˈkeɪ ʃən //UK // (vəʊˈkeɪʃən) //

天职,职责,职务,职分

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.