profession
单词辨析：
指需要经过专业培训的职业，尤指需要较高的受教育水平的职业。
Many students have the intention of joining the legal profession.
很多学生打算投身法律行业。
She is a nurse by profession.
她的职业是护士。
指从事的职业或希望毕生从事的事业。
His first concern while looking for a job is career prospects.
他找工作时首先关注的是职业前景。
She sacrificed a promising career to take care of her family.
她为了照顾家庭而牺牲了很有前途的事业。
泛指任何一种工作，通常不用来谈论自己的职业，多用于表格填写或正式书面语中。
Please state your occupation in the box below.
请把你的职业写在下面的方框内。
Unskilled manual occupations usually don't earn much.
没有技术含量的体力工作通常挣钱不多。
不要用 occupation 一词来谈论自己的职业，如可以说：I'm a teacher.（我是老师。）但不能说：My occupation is a teacher.
指某人认为特别适合自己的工作。
He believed that to be a writer was his true vocation.
他认为当作家是他真正的使命。
The girl missed her vocation - she should have been an actress.
那姑娘入错行了，她本该当演员。
相关例句：
The depth of covert racism in my own profession frightens me.
我所从事的职业中暗藏着如此深的种族主义偏见，这让我感到害怕。
Only 20 per cent of jobs in the professions are held by women.
在这些职业中，只有20%的岗位是由女性担任的。
The proportion of women in the profession had risen to 17.3%
从事该职业的女性比例已升高到17.3%。
It would appear that the legal profession is the nearest thing to a recession-proof industry
司法行业看来是最不易受经济萧条影响的领域了。
The attitude of the medical profession is very much more liberal now.
现在，医务人员的态度开明多了。
Graduate status is the minimum requirement for entry to the teaching profession
研究生学历是从事教学工作的最低要求。