[N-COUNT 可数名词]职业;工作 Your occupation is your job or profession.
I suppose I was looking for an occupation which was going to be an adventure...
我想我在找的是一份具有冒险性的工作。
Occupation: administrative assistant.
职业:行政助理
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]消遣;日常需做的事务 An occupation is something that you spend time doing, either for pleasure or because it needs to be done.
Parachuting is a dangerous occupation.
跳伞是一项危险的消遣运动。
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]占领;占据;侵占 The occupation of a country happens when it is entered and controlled by a foreign army.
Prii had become fluent in German during the Wehrmacht's occupation of Estonia in 1942...
在1942年德军侵占爱沙尼亚期间,普里学得了一口流利的德语。
...the deportation of Jews from Paris during the German occupation.
德国人占领巴黎期间对犹太人的驱逐
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](对建筑物的)占用,居住,使用 The occupation of a building is the act or fact of someone living or working in it.
...people who sell their home and buy another one for their own occupation.
出售房屋再另购一套自住的人
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oc·cu·pa·tionAWL/ˌɒkjuˈpeɪʃn; NAmEˌɑːkjuˈpeɪʃn/noun1[countable ]a job or profession 工作;职业◆Please state your name, age and occupation below.请在下面写明姓名、年龄和职业。☞synonyms at
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2[countable ]the way in which you spend your time, especially when you are not working 消遣;业余活动◆Her main occupation seems to be shopping.逛商店购物似乎是她的主要消遣。3[uncountable ]the act of moving into a country, town, etc. and taking control of it using military force; the period of time during which a country, town, etc. is controlled in this way 侵占;占领;占领期◆the Roman occupation of Britain罗马人对不列颠的占领◆The zones under occupationcontained major industrial areas. 被占领地区涵盖了主要的工业区。◆occupation forces占领军4[uncountable ]( formal) the act of living in or using a building, room, piece of land, etc. (土地、房屋、建筑等的)使用,居住,占用◆The offices will be ready for occupation in June.办公室将于六月交付使用。◆The following applies only to tenants in occupation after January 1 2010.以下规定仅适用于从 2010 年 1 月 1 日起入住的房客。◆The level of owner occupation(= people owning their homes)has increased rapidly in the last 30 years. 拥有住房的人数在过去 30 年间急剧攀升。occupationoccupationsoc·cu·pa·tion/ˌɒkjuˈpeɪʃn; NAmEˌɑːkjuˈpeɪʃn/
1[countable] a job or profession: Please state your name, address and occupation. professional and managerial occupations manual occupations► see thesaurus at
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2[uncountable] when a large group of people enter a place and take control of it, especially by military forceoccupation of the German occupation of Franceunder occupation The area is under occupation (=controlled by a foreign army).3[countable] a way of spending your timeSYN pastime: One of my childhood occupations was collecting stamps.4[uncountable] when someone lives or stays in a building or place: When the first scientists came to the region they found little evidence of human occupation.COLLOCATIONSadjectivesADJECTIVES/NOUN + occupationmanual occupations/blue-collar occupations (=jobs in which you work using your hands)· People from manual occupations are most at risk of experiencing poverty.professional occupations/white-collar occupations (=jobs that usually involve a lot of education)· professional occupations such as medicine or the law· Teachers’ pay compares poorly with that of other white-collar occupations.skilled/unskilled occupations (=needing training and experience/not needing training and experience)· Plumbing and carpentry are highly skilled occupations.· Workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer job opportunities.a working-class/middle-class occupation· Teaching is regarded as a middle-class occupation.· Working-class occupations may be divided into skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled.a male/female occupation (=a job that traditionally is done by men or women)· traditional female occupations such as nursingmanagerial occupations (=a job that involves being a manager)· Women in managerial occupations tend to have children later.service occupations (=a job in which you provide a service rather than producing goods)· Around two thirds of the labour force is employed in service occupations.verbshave an occupation· The people in the region have a variety of occupations.choose an occupation· Young people need help with choosing a suitable occupation.take up an occupation (also enter an occupation formal) (=start doing one)· Many of his colleagues have taken up another occupation.· Our recent graduates have entered a wide range of occupations.follow an occupation formal (=do one)· The third son followed his father’s occupation.
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