Sounds to me as if you've missed out on your vocation.

听上去你是入错行了。

We can say that one is lucky if his vocation coincides with his avocation.

如果一个人的职业刚好与他的爱好一致，那么我们就可以说他是非常幸运的。

No, no, I don't mean because of your vocation.

不，我不是指你的职业。

Teaching children ought to be a vocation as well as a way of earning money.

教育儿童应是一种职业，也是一种赚钱的方法。

I went up to Virginia and entered upon my new vocation.

我去了维吉尼亚开始了我的新职业。

He didn't feel the need to pursue a vocation, or gainful employment of any kind.

他觉得没有必追求职业或任何有报酬的工作。

My mother never really understood my vocation and my work.

我母亲从未真正了解我的职业和工作。

It's having no vocation and curating yourself online.

他们没有职业，在网上展示自己。

The government regards massage as the default vocation for the blind.

政府把推拿当做盲人的职业归宿。

Just say, I've taken on the professional vocation of being a medical practitioner in the field of medicine.

就说，我已经接受了成为医学领域医生的职业。

I had gained a livelihood in various vocations, but no one was dazzled with my success.

尽管我做过各种工作来维持生，可是都是微不足道的活儿。

When Leo Tolstoy here wakes up, you might get him to revisit the idea of a new vocation.

等这个托尔斯泰醒来的时候，可以让他重新考虑一职业。

And in the world in which I was born, vocation was very narrowly equated with work and job title.

在我出生的世界里，职业被狭隘地等同于工作和职称。

Now, he says, even a “faithful Catholic family might panic” if a son announced a similar vocation.

而现在，他说，如果儿子去当神父，“虔诚的天主教家庭也会惊慌失措”。

Some would say, some would say that the distinction between the two vocations is not as clear as you suggest.

有人会说，这两种职业之间的差别没有你说的那么大。

The Latin word for " calling, " " vocare, " is the root of our word in English, " vocation."

“召唤” 在拉丁语中是 “vocare”，这是我们在英语中单词 “职业” 的词根。

In African countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda teaching is all too often a sinecure , not a vocation.

在非洲国家如加纳，尼日利亚和乌干达，老师只是一个闲职，而非真正的工作。

Definitely not about one's future vocation, I'd say.

绝对不是关于一个人未来的职业，我会说。

Universities play a more important role than vocation education.

大学比职业教育发挥着更重的作用。

When manual workers became redundant, it sparked protests at the loss of their vocation.

当体力劳动者变得多余时，引发了对他们失去职业的抗议。