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vocation

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n. 職業, 天命, 天職, 才能, 行業
【法】 行業, 職業, 職業上的才能

詞意辨析:

profession, job, occupation, trade, vocation, career, work, employment
這些名詞均含“職業”之意。
profession: 以前常指要受過高等教育(尤指法律、醫學和神學)才能獲得的職業,現在一般指為謀生之職,尤指從事腦力勞動和受過專門訓練,具有某種專業知識的工作。
job: 泛指一切有報酬的工作。
occupation: 泛指任何一種職業,比job正式,經常用於書面填表中。
trade: 指技巧、技能型職業。
vocation: 較正式用詞,語氣莊重,有專業及天職之意,以前常用於教會中的職位。
career: 指經過專門訓練,終身願意從事的職業。
work: 指任何種類的工作,也泛指職業。
employment: 指受僱的工作,通常能比較穩定領取工資。

英文解釋:

名詞 vocation:

  1. the particular occupation for which you are trained
    同義詞:career, calling
  2. a body of people doing the same kind of work
    同義詞:occupational group

例句:

  1. A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
    牙醫在工作的時候,是往嘴裡瞧/垂頭喪氣
  2. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
    每個工作日象假日一樣,平時節日的來臨被抱怨為是對他們正全神貫注的工作的強行中斷。
  3. He has little vocation for teaching.
    不是教書的材料。
  4. Nursing is a vocation as well as a profession.
    護理工作既是職業又是救死扶傷責任

詳細解釋:


vo.ca.tion

n.(名詞)
A regular occupation, especially one for which a person is particularly suited or qualified.
行業,職業:正規的工作,尤指一個人特別適合或尤其有資格勝任的職業
An inclination, as if in response to a summons, to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; a calling.
神召,天命:擔負起某種工作,尤指宗教事業的一種傾向,如同回響神召一樣;呼喚

來源:
Middle English vocacioun [divine call to a religious life]
中古英文 vocacioun [過宗教生活的神的召喚]
from Old French vocation
源自 古法文 vocation
from Latin voc3tiô voc3tiôn- [a calling]
源自 拉丁語 voc3tiô voc3tiôn- [呼叫]
from voc3tus [past participle of] voc3re [to call] * see wek w-
源自 voc3tus [] voc3re的過去分詞 [叫喚] *參見 wek w-

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