天职 (天職)
tiān zhí
Pinyin

Definition

天职 (天職)
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tiān zhí
  1. vocation
  2. duty
  3. mission in life

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

今天
jīn tiān
  1. 1 today
  2. 2 at the present
  3. 3 now
天
tiān
  1. 1 day
  2. 2 sky
  3. 3 heaven
天下
tiān xià
  1. 1 land under heaven
  2. 2 the whole world
  3. 3 the whole of China
  4. 4 realm
  5. 5 rule
天天
tiān tiān
  1. 1 every day
天气
tiān qì
  1. 1 weather

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
yī zhù qíng tiān
  1. 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child

Sample Sentences

服从命令是军人的天职。
fúcóng mìnglìng shì jūnrén de tiānzhí 。
To obey orders is a soldier's bound duty.
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的确 有点。北方 男人 虽然 热情 豪爽，却 也 比较 霸气，容易 冲动。同时 他们 还 认为 做家务 是 女人 的 天职，所以 北方 男人 在 家里 是 很少 做家务 的。要是 哪个 北方 男人 被 人 知道 在 家里 做家务 而且 还 怕 老婆，估计 会 是 最 丢脸 的 事情 了 吧。
díquè yǒudiǎn 。běifāng nánrén suīrán rèqíng háoshuǎng ，què yě bǐjiào bàqì ，róngyì chōngdòng 。tóngshí tāmen hái rènwéi zuò jiāwù shì nǚrén de tiānzhí ，suǒyǐ běifāng nánrén zài jiālǐ shì hěn shǎo zuò jiāwù de 。 nǎ ge běifāng nánrén bèi rén zhīdào zài jiālǐ zuò jiāwù érqiě hái pà lǎopó ，gūjì huì shì zuì diūliǎn de shìqing le ba 。
They definitely are. Although they're enthusiastic and straightforward, Northern men are also a bit tyrannical, and rather impulsive. And at the same time, they think that housework is women's natural duty. So it's very rare for northern men to do housework. If people knew that some northern guy did housework and was afraid of his wife, that would probably be the most face-losing thing that could happen.
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真没出息！男人的天职就是挣钱养家，就像女人要生儿育女一样！你离我心目中好男人的标准还差得远呢！
zhēn méi chūxi ！nánrén de tiānzhí jiùshì zhèngqián yǎngjiā ，jiù xiàng nǚrén yào shēngéryùnǚ yīyàng ！nǐ lí wǒ xīnmù zhōng hǎo nánrén de biāozhǔn hái chà de yuǎn ne ！
You're so hopeless! It's the man's duty in life to make money and provide for his family--just like it's the woman's job to give birth to the children. You're pretty far from what I imagine a good man should be.
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