profession, job, occupation, trade, vocation, career, work, employment

work, task, job

名詞 job:

1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
   同義詞：occupation, business, line of work, line
2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
   同義詞：task, chore
3. the performance of a piece of work
4. the responsibility to do something
5. a workplace; as in the expression "on the job";
6. an object worked on; a result produced by working
7. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
   同義詞：problem
8. a damaging piece of work
9. a crime (especially a robbery)
   同義詞：caper
10. a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him
11. any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
12. (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
13. a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
    同義詞：Book of Job

動詞 job:

1. profit privately from public office and official business
2. arranged for contracted work to be done by others
   同義詞：subcontract, farm out
3. work occasionally
4. invest at a risk
   同義詞：speculate

1. It's the job of the church to help people lead better lives.
   幫助人們生活得好些是教會的責任。
2. Raising money is your job.
   籌集資金是你的任務。
3. The whole job only takes half an hour.
   整個工作只需要半個小時。

job

n.（名詞）
A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one`s trade, occupation, or profession.
工作：為換取報酬而進行的日?；顒?，尤指作為某人的手藝、行業(yè)或職業(yè)的工作
A position in which one is employed.
職業(yè)，職位：某人受雇傭的職位

A task that must be done:
任務：必須完成的一項任務：
例句：
Washing the windows is not my job.
洗窗子不是我的事兒

A specified duty or responsibility.See Synonyms at task
職責：一項具體的職責或責任參見 task

A specific piece of work to be done for a set fee:
活兒，零活：一件報酬固定的具體工作：
例句：
an expensive repair job.
昂貴的修理工作

The object to be worked on.
東西，活計：為其進行工作的事物
Something resulting from or produced by work.
成果，產品：工作的成果或產品
Computer Science A program application that may consist of several steps but is performed as a single logical unit.
【計算機科學】 作業(yè)：一種應用程序，可能包括好幾個步驟，但作為一個單一邏輯單位執(zhí)行
Informal A difficult or strenuous task:
【非正式用語】 費力的事情：難做的或特別費力的事情：
例句：
It was a real job to convince them to drop the charges.
要說服他們撤訴確實得費點勁兒

Informal A bad or unsatisfactory piece of work:
【非正式用語】 破壞，為害：一件做得很壞或不盡人意的工作：
例句：
The stylist did a real job on my hair.
發(fā)型師把我的頭發(fā)剪糟了

Informal A state of affairs:
【非正式用語】 事態(tài)，狀況：事情的狀況，事態(tài)：
例句：
Their marriage was a bad job right from the start. It`s a good job that we left early to avoid the traffic.
他們的婚姻從一開始就糟透了。幸好我們動身很早，避開了交通高峰

Informal A criminal act, especially a robbery:
【非正式用語】 作惡，搶劫：一件犯罪行為，尤指偷竊、搶劫：
例句：
a bank job.
搶劫銀行

v.（動詞）
jobbed,job.bing,jobs
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To work at odd jobs.
干雜活
To work by the piece.
做計件工作
To act as a jobber.
打零工
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To purchase (merchandise) from manufacturers and sell it to retailers.
做批發(fā)商：從制造商那里批購（商品）然后轉賣給零售商
To arrange for (contracted work) to be done in portions by others; subcontract.
轉包合同：把（簽了合同的工作）分包給別人；轉包合同
To transact (official business) dishonestly for private profit.
假公濟私：以舞弊手段假公濟私地處置（官方事務）

<習慣用語>on the job
Paying close attention; on the alert.
留心著；警惕著
來源：
Perhaps from obsolete jobbe [piece]
可能源自 廢語 jobbe [件，份]
alteration of Middle English gobbe [lump] * see gob
中古英語 gobbe的變化 [塊] *參見 gob

job
job 2

v.tr.intr.（及物動詞和不及物動詞）
jobbed,job.bing,jobs
To jab or make a jab.
刺，戳，捅，猛擊
n.（名詞）
A jab.
刺，戳，捅，猛擊

來源：
Middle English jobben
中古英語 jobben