vocation

/vәu'keiʃәn/ uk　 词频 #9913

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vocation 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 职业, 天命, 天职, 才能, 行业

[法] 行业, 职业, 职业上的才能

英文释义

n the particular occupation for which you are trained

n a body of people doing the same kind of work

vocation 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 vocation 在自然语境里怎么用：

During higher education’s “start-up” era, the early 1100s, being a professor was less a professional vocation than a journey.

—— Learning to Live With Invidia: What Petrarch Has To Teach Us About Envy

And if he was renouncing the vocation he struggled so hard to claim, what had it all been for?

—— Brooding on verandas, slurping Pepsi Max, carefully observing the color of urine — across thousands of pages, certain Knausgaardian tropes repeat

My work over more than 30 years has been a vocation rather than a career—and that’s partly because it has been personal.

—— Has Mindfulness Had Its Day?

The greatest tension in my life is that, as a critic, I am constantly making judgments of taste, and it’s a presumption of my vocation that other people should agree with me; I’m inegalitarian.

—— Cass Sunstein: “To attribute social terribleness to liberalism is reckless. Liberalism isn’t a force in history. It’s not Voldemort”

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