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小词详解 | vocation
vocation 英 [vəʊˈkeɪʃn] 美 [voʊˈkeɪʃn]
There are many dedicated stockpickers who take this social role seriously and see it as a vocation.
有许多专门选股的人认真对待这一社会角色,并将其视为一种职业。
——《经济学人》But people on the road to inner light do not find their vocations by asking, what do I want from life?
但是,在寻求内在光明的路上,人们是无法通过询问“我在生活中想要的是什么”来找到职业道路的。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 一种适合某一特定事业或职业的强烈感觉
尽管看见血会使她心里感到有点不舒服,但她却是一位具有强烈使命感的医生。
Though seeing blood makes her feel a bit peculiar inside, she is a doctor with a strong sense of vocation.她是教书的材料。她教起书来驾轻就熟,知道如何帮助学生渡过学习瓶颈期。
She has a vocation for teaching. She has taken to teaching like a duck to water and knows how to help students break their learning plateaus.
等到了16世纪50年代后, vocation 开始衍生指“工作、职业”或“生活方式”,同样也是强调认为特别适合自己,尤其是认为特别有价值、值得投入所有的时间和精力或需要极大的奉献精神,比如:
研制超级杂交水稻不仅仅是一项工作,而且还是一种职业。
Developing super hybrid rice is not just a job─it's a vocation.你干错行了,你本该当演员。你具有演员典型的可塑性强的特征。
You missed your vocation─you should have been an actor. You have an actor's typically malleable features.
Joseph remained to hector over tenants and labourers; and because it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of wickedness to reprove.
约瑟夫继续威吓着佃户与那些干活的,因为呆在一个有好多事他可以骂个没完的地方,就是他的职业。
niche: a comfortable or suitable position in life or employment profession: a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification career: an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress