34.工作 职业
work:(un)A very general one.
job:(cn)Any sort of gainful regular employment whether
permanent or temporary.
He had a good jog in a bank.
profession:It suggests a position that can't be gained without a considerable amount of higher education.
It implies intellectual work, scholarship and mainly refers to three learned professions-law, medicine and theology.
What do you think of the profession to be a teacher?
occupation:What he is engaged in, either continuously or temporarily, for any purpose, whether of profit of amusement, learning.
Can you find occupation suitable for his abilities.
employment:(un)What one is doing, work done in service of another in order to make a living or get pay./temporary business,
The government gives some money to the worker out of employment.
vocation:(cn)A job which one does because one thinks one has a special fitness or ability or sense of duty.
It suggests the people do it in order to help others not for the earning of a livelihood.teaching and nursing.Teaching children ought or be a vocation as well as a way of earning money.
position:(fml)A job, post, usually involving professions managerial or clerical work, not manual.
She got a position as a governess.
He lost his position as steward.
35.停止
stop:The most general one.
pause:To stop for a short time.
He paused to pick up a stone.
cease:To stop moving or acting.
It implies a total extinction.
They ceased(from)quarrelling.to cease fire.
quit:To stop doing something and leave.
It implies the meaning of voluntarily and completely.
He quitted his school/job.
halt:To cause to stop.
It refers to the abrupt, decisive termination of movement.
It implies the meaning of by authority or force.
The soldiers halted for a rest.
knock off:(infm)To stop
terminate:To come to an end.
The two countries terminated their relations.
36.持久
durable:Long-lasting
It refers to the power to resist change, delay and wear.
we must make a durable peace.
(ever)-lasting:Continuing for a long time/unending.
It refers to something that may end sooner or later.a lasting sorrow/ a ever-lasting friendship.
perpetual:(strongest one)Lasting for ever or a long time.
/uninterrupted happening often.It refers chiefly to an activity that is not susceptible to interruption.
I'm tired of your perpetual complainants/chatters.
permanent:Lasting for ever.
The permanent of the treaty is in doubt.
enduring:Lasting and continuing to exist.
It implies great resistance to both time and change.
37.旅行
journey:The most general one.
it is now usually used of travel by sand and often
suggests the covering of considerable time or distance, and a direct going from a starting point to a destination, with no necessary implication of a return.
travel:A passing from place to place, not necessarily in a direct line or with fixed destination.
trip:(infm)It suggests the covering of shorter time or distance and a direct journey and implies an final return to the starting point.
tour:A journey that returns to the starting point, and many places are visited generally over a considerable distance often by means of a circuitous route.for instance for sightseeing, inspection, honey moon, business.
excursion:It emphasizes a temporary departure from a given place and specifies a return to it.It can point to a sea or land tour or to a short outing a short journey made for pleasure usu by several people together.
voyage:A long journey on a ship or in a spacecraft.
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