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Occupation 无 `ɔkju'peiʃən N.工作,职业;占领 英 N 工作,职业 Job

单词 occupation
音标 [`ɔkju'peiʃən]
解释 n.工作,职业;占领
红宝书 【英】 n. 工作,职业 (a job, employment);占领 (occupying a place)
【记】 occupy(占领,使用 )+ation
字源 occupation (n.)
early 14c., "fact of holding or possessing;" mid-14c., "a being employed in something," also "a particular action," from Old French occupacion "pursuit, work, employment; occupancy, occupation" (12c.), from Latin occupationem (nominative occupatio) "a taking possession; business, employment," noun of action from past participle stem of occupare (see occupy). Meaning "employment, business in which one engages" is late 14c. That of "condition of being held and ruled by troops of another country" is from 1940.
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