vocation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 职业； 召唤； 天命； 天职； 才能，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If it were only a passing fancy or a passion, if it were only this attraction--this mutual attraction (I can call it a MUTUAL attraction), but if I felt that it was in contradiction with the whole bent of my life--if I felt that in giving way to this attraction I should be false to my vocation and my duty...but it's not so.
-- But he went on explaining his own idea that the Russian laborer has a quite special view of the land, different from that of other people; and to support this proposition he made haste to add that in his opinion this attitude of the Russian peasant was due to the consciousness of his vocation to people vast unoccupied expanses in the East.
-- "One may easily be led into error in basing any conclusion on the general vocation of a people," said Metrov, interrupting Levin.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think I should have shown a strong vocation in boyhood, crushed by the will of his father or sacrificed to the necessity of earning a living; I should have pictured him impatient of the restraints of life; and in the struggle between his passion for art and the duties of his station I could have aroused sympathy for him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that natureand accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation withconfidence.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, ye see, neighbours, I was lately married to a woman, and she's my vocation now, and so ye see " The young man halted lamely.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seven years before he had retired from active service he decided that his true vocation in life was painting, and from the height of his artistic activity he looked down upon all other occupations.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joseph remained to hector over tenants and labourers; and because it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of wickedness to reprove.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doubtless one leading reason why the world declines honoring us whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, our vocation amounts to a butchering sort of business; and that when actively engaged therein, we are surrounded by all manner of defilements.
-- For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this and rightly ascribed it to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.
-- The large importance attached to the harpooneer's vocation is evinced by the fact, that originally in the old Dutch Fishery, two centuries and more ago, the command of a whale ship was not wholly lodged in the person now called the captain, but was divided between him and an officer called the Specksnyder.
-- Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.
-- Be it said, that in this vocation of whaling, sinecures are unknown; dignity and danger go hand in hand; till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil.
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