vocation详尽意思

1. 天职
2. 职业
3. 才能
4. 行业
5. 使命
6. 神召
7. 圣召
8. 禀性
9. 天命
10. 倾向
11. 适合性
12. 本分
13. 天赋
14. 生活方式
15. 信心
16. 使命感
17. 工作

1. the particular occupation for which you are trained
2. a body of people doing the same kind of work

1.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.

e.g. It could well be that he has a realvocation...
很可能他是找到了自己真正的使命。
e.g. Diana was a young mission school teacher convinced of hervocation 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。

2.（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.

e.g. Hervocation is her work as an actress...
她的职业就是当演员。
e.g. She has novocation for teaching.
她不是当老师的料。

• commercial vocation商务行业

• It's no good my being ordained if I haven't a real vocation.

  出自：W. S. Maugham

profession，job，occupation，trade，vocation，career，work，employment

这些名词均含“职业”之意。

profession以前常指要受过高等教育(尤指法律、医学和神学)才能获得的职业，现在一般指为谋生之职，尤指从事脑力劳动和受过专门训练，具有某种专业知识的工作。

job 泛指一切有报酬的工作。

occupation泛指任何一种职业，比job正式，经常用于书面填表中。

trade指技巧、技能型职业。

vocation较正式用词，语气庄重，有专业及天职之意，以前常用于教会中的职位。

career指经过专门训练，终身愿意从事的职业。

work指任何种类的工作，也泛指职业。

employment指受雇的工作，通常能比较稳定领取工资。