vocations

英 [vəʊˈkeɪʃənz]

美 [voʊˈkeɪʃənz]

n.  (认为特别适合自己的)工作，职业，生活方式; (认为某种工作或生活方式特别适合自己的)信心，使命感; 圣召; 神召
vocation的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 使命;天职
  If you have avocation, you have a strong feeling that you are especially suited to do a particular job or to fulfil a particular role in life, especially one which involves helping other people.
  1. It could well be that he has a real vocation...
     很可能他是找到了自己真正的使命。
  2. Diana was a young mission school teacher convinced of her vocation to provide support for her schoolgirl pupils.
     黛安娜是教会学校的一名年轻老师，她深信帮助学校的女学生是其天职。
• N-VAR （认为特别适合自己的）工作，职业
  If you refer to your job or profession as yourvocation, you feel that you are particularly suited to it.
  1. Her vocation is her work as an actress...
     她的职业就是当演员。
  2. She has no vocation for teaching.
     她不是当老师的料。

双语例句

• They are not clear about their own characters and abilities, the vocations which are closely related to their major, whether be engaged in their majors as well as how to make their own occupation plan.
  表现在对自身认识不清；对与自己专业联系紧密的行业形势模糊不清；对是否从事自己的专业以及如何进行职业规划没有明确概念。
• There are much more peaceful vocations one can pursue: working as an artist perhaps, or a software engineer, or even a gardener.
  你可以从事许多平和得多的职业：做一名艺术家、软件工程师或园丁。
• In this paper, the data of 16 vocations in the industry of Tianjin are dealt with by principal component analysis, cluster analysis and factor analysis.
  对天津市工业中十六个主要行业1997年的数据进行了主成分分析、聚类分析和因子分析。
• General: That the laity and the Christian communities may be responsible promoters of priestly and religious vocations.
  总祈祷意向：愿平信徒和基督徒团体成为司铎和修会圣召负责任的推动者。
• Let parents choose betimes the vocations and courses they mean their children should take;
  为父母者当及时选择在他们意中他们底子嗣所当从事的职业及训练；
• So the key strategy for China's vocational education in the next ten or twenty years is to improve the vocational abilities of people with secondary vocations, better the structure of the work force and rationalize the structure of demand for workers.
  按照这一发展目标，在今后的十年、二十年，我国职业技术教育的核心战略是提高中等职业人才的职业能力，改善劳动力结构，逐步使社会对劳动力需求结构趋于合理。
• When the teachers chase to the development of their profession, they also should form the awareness of experience sharing, and the schools should encourage teachers to make various development of vocations.
  教师在积极追求专业成长的同时，要形成经验分享的意识，鼓励教师角色和职务的多元化发展。
• Challenge: Today I can plan a special sacrifice for vocations.
  挑战：今天，我要为圣召，准备一次特殊的牺牲。
• Allison products cover a wide range of vocations including refuse, fire, off-highway, airport ground equipment, pick up and delivery, transit, intercity buses, coach and specialty vehicles.
  艾里逊产品用途广泛，包括垃圾、消防、非公路、机场服务设备、轻卡和运货、城市城间客车、旅游车和特种车辆。
• The periodicals distribute in different departments and vocations.
  期刊分布于不同的部门和行业等。