英 [vəʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)n] 美 [voʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)n]
n. （认为某种职业适合自己的）使命感；（认为特别适合自己的）工作，职业，生活方式；神召，天命，（宗教）使命感
复数vocations
vocation /vəʊˈkeɪʃən/ TEM4
有变体名词 If you have a vocation, you have a strong feeling that you are especially suited to do a particular job or to fulfill a particular role in life, especially one that involves helping other people. 使命感
It could well be that he has a real vocation.
他很可能有种真正的使命感。
有变体名词 If you refer to your job or profession as your vocation, you feel that you are particularly suited to it. 适合的职业
Her vocation is her work as an actress.
她适合的职业就是当演员。
a body of people doing the same kind of work
同义词： occupational group
职业-引用次数：34
职业-引用次数：17
Compared to other land-based industries , the sea-transporting is a vocation which is recognized of being fulled with difficult and risk, so the crew’s contract needs more protection than the general contract.
海上运输业与陆上其他行业相比是公认的艰苦职业和风险职业,因此船员劳务合同较之一般行业的劳务合同在保障上就显得更为必要和突出。
市井妓业-引用次数：2
参考来源从《北里志》看唐代的市井妓业
天职-引用次数：1
一、职业教育起源 (一)职业起源 职业(vocation)指“人们在社会劳动分工中，所从事的具有专门职能的工作，并以此获得谋生的主要收入来源和相应的社会地位。
... vacation n (大学的)假期 vocation n 职业;行业 variable e 易变的;不稳定的 ...
... bramble 荆棘 vocation 职业；使命 evocation 召唤 ...
vocational 职业的，行业的
vocationally 职业上地；职业性地
[劳经]职业；天职；天命；神召
profession / employment / career / calling / pursuit / occupation
Her vocation is her work as an actress.
她适合的职业就是当演员。
Nursing is not just a job—it's a vocation.
护理不仅仅是一项工作，而且还是一种职业。
He has a vocation for teaching.
他是教书的材料。
And according to this image of the vocation of the poet, Milton isn't claiming divine inspiration at all. He's making a deal.
通过这种对诗人职业的比喻，弥尔顿并不在宣传神圣精神，他在做生意。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
There's every indication that Milton believed, as I had mentioned before, at an unconscionably early age, that poetry was his vocation.
就像我之前说过的，有很多的迹象表明，弥尔顿在很早之前就相信诗人就是他的天职。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
But my teaching at a certain form of ministering therefore is a kind of vocation, a kind of calling.
但是教书由于在某种程度上为人服务,所以可以称作一种职业，一种召唤。
人性课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
It was Monet's first solo show in 1880 that inspired the teenage Paul Signac's vocation.
"Rather than being true to our big company, we were true to our vocation, " says Gadwood.
It places Americans in the awkward position of weighing their patriotism against their vocation.
vocation是一个英语单词，用作名词，意思是“职业；天职；天命；神召”。