occupation

记忆“occupation”的方法是将其分解为“oc”和“cupation”。想象一个杯子（cup）在不断地旋转（oc，类似于“转动”的谐音），象征着职业（occupation）的不断变动和流动性。通过这种联想，你可以记住单词“occupation”的意思是职业或占领。

occupation 占用，工作，职业

来自occupy,占用，占据，居住。引申词义职业。

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.

1. Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation.

在被占领期间法国思想界受到了压制。

2. Social status is largely determined by the occupation of the main breadwinner.

社会地位很大程度上是由家里经济支柱的职业决定的。

3. Please state your name, age and occupation below.

请在下面写明姓名、年龄和职业。

4. He is a teacher by occupation but a philosopher by inclination.

他的职业是教师,但他的本心是成为哲学家.

5. I haven't entered up your name and occupation yet.

我尚未记下你的名字和职业.

【work, vocation, occupation, employment, trade, profession, career, job】
这组词都有“职业”的意思，其区别是：
work: 指任何种类的工作，也泛指职业。
vocation: 较正式用词，语气庄重，指长期从事，但不一定以此为主计的职业。
occupation: 泛指任何一种职业，既不分什么行业，也不管是脑力还是体力劳动。
employment: 指受雇于他人，领取工资以谋生计，有较固定工作的职业。
trade: 指需要有熟练技巧、技能和体力的职业。
profession: 以前常指要受过高等教育(尤指法律、医学和神学)才能获得的职业，现在一般指为谋生日的职业，尤指从事脑力劳动和受过专门训练，具有某种专业知识的职业。
career: 指经过专门训练，终身愿意从事的职业。
job: 通常指一切有收入，不分脑力与体力运动，不论是否有技艺的长期或临时的职业。