vocation

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

名词 vocation:

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

1. A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
   牙医在工作的时候，是往嘴里瞧／垂头丧气。
2. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
   每个工作日象假日一样，平时节日的来临被抱怨为是对他们正全神贯注的工作的强行中断。
3. He has little vocation for teaching.
   他不是教书的材料。
4. Nursing is a vocation as well as a profession.
   护理工作既是职业又是救死扶伤的责任。

vo.ca.tion

n.（名词）
A regular occupation, especially one for which a person is particularly suited or qualified.
行业，职业：正规的工作，尤指一个人特别适合或尤其有资格胜任的职业
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：担负起某种工作，尤指宗教事业的一种倾向，如同响应神召一样；呼唤

来源：
Middle English vocacioun [divine call to a religious life]
中古英语 vocacioun [过宗教生活的神的召唤]
from Old French vocation
源自 古法语 vocation
from Latin voc3tiô voc3tiôn- [a calling]
源自 拉丁语 voc3tiô voc3tiôn- [呼叫]
from voc3tus [past participle of] voc3re [to call] * see wek w-
源自 voc3tus [] voc3re的过去分词 [叫唤] *参见 wek w-