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

• 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。
• This Law shall not apply to the seafarers serving on ship, which is exclusively for the governmental services, except for the matters in respect of their qualifications, vocations, cultivation, training and dealing of navigation safety and maritime casualties.
  专用于公务用船舶之船员，除有关船员之资格、执业与培训、航行安全与海难处理外，不适用本法之规定。
• 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。
• There are significant differences in the results of the parents who read to their preschool children among the different educational levels and vocations.
  父母不同的教育程度及不同职业在亲子共讀结果上有显著差異存在。
• 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。
• We talk about masks and Oscar Wilde and the nature of performance and the need of artists to pursue their vocations.
  我们还谈到了伪装的面具、奥斯卡王尔德（oscarwilde）、演出的性质，以及艺术家对事业孜孜以求的需要。
• With these incidents, Tang Ying consulted experts from various vocations for measures in emergency.
  通过这些案例，唐颖向各行各业的专家请教了很多自我防范和应急的方法。
• 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。
• The first four vocations were peasants, workers, students, and job-waiting/ laid-off workers in turn.
  前4位职业依次为农民、工人、学生、待业/下岗者。
• The development of information technology has made all vocations facing to new opportunity and challenge which never been before.
  信息技术的飞速发展，使各行各业面临前所未有的机遇和挑战。