job

profession, job, occupation, trade, vocation, career, work, employment

work, task, job

名词 job:

1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
   同义词：occupation, business, line of work, line
2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
   同义词：task, chore
3. the performance of a piece of work
4. the responsibility to do something
5. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
6. an object worked on; a result produced by working
7. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
   同义词：problem
8. a damaging piece of work
9. a crime (especially a robbery)
   同义词：caper
10. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
11. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
12. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
13. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
    同义词：Book of Job

动词 job:

1. profit privately from public office and official business
2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
   同义词：subcontract, farm out
3. work occasionally
4. invest at a risk
   同义词：speculate

1. It's the job of the church to help people lead better lives.
   帮助人们生活得好些是教会的责任。
2. Raising money is your job.
   筹集资金是你的任务。
3. The whole job only takes half an hour.
   整个工作只需要半个小时。

job

n.（名词）
A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one`s trade, occupation, or profession.
工作：为换取报酬而进行的日常活动，尤指作为某人的手艺、行业或职业的工作
A position in which one is employed.
职业，职位：某人受雇佣的职位

A task that must be done:
任务：必须完成的一项任务：
例句：
Washing the windows is not my job.
洗窗子不是我的事儿

A specified duty or responsibility.See Synonyms at task
职责：一项具体的职责或责任参见 task

A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee:
活儿，零活：一件报酬固定的具体工作：
例句：
an expensive repair job.
昂贵的修理工作

The object to be worked on.
东西，活计：为其进行工作的事物
Something resulting from or produced by work.
成果，产品：工作的成果或产品
Computer Science A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.
【计算机科学】 作业：一种应用程序，可能包括好几个步骤，但作为一个单一逻辑单位执行
Informal A difficult or strenuous task:
【非正式用语】 费力的事情：难做的或特别费力的事情：
例句：
It was a real job to convince them to drop the charges.
要说服他们撤诉确实得费点劲儿

Informal A bad or unsatisfactory piece of work:
【非正式用语】 破坏，为害：一件做得很坏或不尽人意的工作：
例句：
The stylist did a real job on my hair.
发型师把我的头发剪糟了

Informal A state of affairs:
【非正式用语】 事态，状况：事情的状况，事态：
例句：
Their marriage was a bad job right from the start. It`s a good job that we left early to avoid the traffic.
他们的婚姻从一开始就糟透了。幸好我们动身很早，避开了交通高峰

Informal A criminal act, especially a robbery:
【非正式用语】 作恶，抢劫：一件犯罪行为，尤指偷窃、抢劫：
例句：
a bank job.
抢劫银行

v.（动词）
jobbed,job.bing,jobs
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To work at odd jobs.
干杂活
To work by the piece.
做计件工作
To act as a jobber.
打零工
v.tr.（及物动词）
To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.
做批发商：从制造商那里批购（商品）然后转卖给零售商
To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.
转包合同：把（签了合同的工作）分包给别人；转包合同
To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.
假公济私：以舞弊手段假公济私地处置（官方事务）

<习惯用语>on the job
Paying close attention; on the alert.
留心着；警惕着
来源：
Perhaps from obsolete jobbe [piece]
可能源自 废语 jobbe [件，份]
alteration of Middle English gobbe [lump] * see gob
中古英语 gobbe的变化 [块] *参见 gob

job
job 2

v.tr.intr.（及物动词和不及物动词）
jobbed,job.bing,jobs
To jab or make a jab.
刺，戳，捅，猛击
n.（名词）
A jab.
刺，戳，捅，猛击

来源：
Middle English jobben
中古英语 jobben