Vocation

(n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

(n.) Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.

(n.) A calling by the will of God.

(n.) The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.

(n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.

埃塞雷德编辑

• The Meaning of Vocation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They have not done till this generation; but I feel as if it were my vocation to turn out a new variety of the Yorke species. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The traveller with the cart was a reddleman--a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Let other nations be merchants and warriors, while Greece reasserts her ancient vocation of teacher. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He says that he could turn his mind to doing his best in that vocation, on one condition. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The colleges submit to it whenever they concentrate their attention on the details of the student's vocation before they have built up some cultural background. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I am not fit for it: I have no vocation, I said. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Isn't marriage your vocation? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Père Silas _did_ say that his vocation was almost that of a priest--that his life was considered consecrated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with confidence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She already knew his vocation was that of tuition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I applied it to him with the deliberate conviction that his vocation in life was the vocation of a spy. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The vocation acts as both magnet to attract and as glue to hold. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The vocation will fit you to a hair, I thought: much good may it do you! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It is a physiognomy seen in all vocations, but perhaps it has never been more powerful over the youth of England than in a judge of horses. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• As already implied, the Royal Society was not ex clusive in its attitude toward the different vocations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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