vocation是什么意思,vocation怎么用
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📰 外刊例句
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》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[noun] a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation
[名词] 一种适合某一特定事业或职业的强烈感觉
💡 深入解读
Vocation 是一个与熟词 vacation 十分形似的单词,在前不久推送的好书推荐 | 一本让你暑假弯道超车的单词书一文中,小站就一不小心将 vacation 错拼成了 vocation 。Vocation 一词源自拉丁语vocare(呼叫),15世纪初经古法语vocacion(召唤、献祭;使命、天职)进入英语后也是用来表示“圣召、神召”或“使命、天职”,现在主要用来表示认为某种工作或生活方式特别适合自己的“使命感、信心”,以及从事某项职业或活动的“意愿、才能、素质”,常用搭配vocation for sth,
比如:
Though seeing blood makes her feel a bit peculiar inside, she is a doctor with a strong sense of vocation.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。
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.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。
Developing super hybrid rice is not just a job─it's a vocation.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。
You missed your vocation ─you should have been an actor. You have an actor's typically malleable features.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。
值得注意的是,与 vocation 不仅形近而且容易混淆的 avocation 常作为一个正式用语表示“业余爱好”,与 vocation 恰恰相反。
📚 名著用例
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。
— 出自《英国女作家艾米莉·勃朗特(Emily Brontë)的小说《呼啸山庄》( Wuthering Heights )。》
🔍 同近义词
- 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 w

