Vocation
[və(ʊ)'keɪʃ(ə)n] or [vo'keʃən]
解释:
(n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
(n.) Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.
(n.) A calling by the will of God.
(n.) The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.
(n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.
埃塞雷德编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. Occupation, employment, calling, business, pursuit, profession, trade, AVOCATION.
录入:欧文
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Profession, office, calling, function, mission, avocation, trade, business,capacity, employment, occupation
ANT:Inconversance, Incapacity, leisure, nonemployment
整理:洛厄尔
解释:
n. call or act of calling: calling: occupation.—adj. Vocā′tional.—adv. Vocā′tionally.
整理:纳撒尼尔
例句:
- The Meaning of Vocation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- They have not done till this generation; but I feel as if it were my vocation to turn out a new variety of the Yorke species. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The traveller with the cart was a reddleman--a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Let other nations be merchants and warriors, while Greece reasserts her ancient vocation of teacher. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- He says that he could turn his mind to doing his best in that vocation, on one condition. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The colleges submit to it whenever they concentrate their attention on the details of the student's vocation before they have built up some cultural background. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I am not fit for it: I have no vocation, I said. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Isn't marriage your vocation? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Père Silas _did_ say that his vocation was almost that of a priest--that his life was considered consecrated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with confidence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- She already knew his vocation was that of tuition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I applied it to him with the deliberate conviction that his vocation in life was the vocation of a spy. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The vocation acts as both magnet to attract and as glue to hold. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The vocation will fit you to a hair, I thought: much good may it do you! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It is a physiognomy seen in all vocations, but perhaps it has never been more powerful over the youth of England than in a judge of horses. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- As already implied, the Royal Society was not ex clusive in its attitude toward the different vocations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
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