vocation
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。
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It could well be that he has a real vocation
很可能他是找到了自己真正的使命。
Artistic and aesthetic vocation would be your perfect choice.
艺术类和审美学的职业将会是你绝佳的选择。
At last I've found my true vocation.
我终于找到了真正适合我的工作。
Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.
教书是我的职业，写作是我的副业。
You will not make a good teacher, unless you feel teaching is your vocation.
除非你能把教书看作是你的天职，否则，你很难成为一名好老师。
We must continually reflect on our Christian vocation and its demands.
我们应该继续反省基督徒的召唤，和它的要求。