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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
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- career [kə'rɪə]
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1.
n
a path or progress through life or history
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2.
n
a profession or occupation chosen as one's life's work
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3.
n
[modifier]
having or following a career as specified
- a career diplomat
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4.
n
a course or path, esp a swift or headlong one
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5.
vi.
[intr]
to move swiftly along; rush in an uncontrolled way
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6.
vi.
[Etymology]
C16: from French carrière, from Late Latin carr
a ria carriage road, from Latin carrus two-wheeled wagon,car
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1.
n
a path or progress through life or history
Examples
- a career soldier
- 职业军人 → career
- carve a career
- 创业，发迹 → carve
- checkered career
- 沉浮的生涯 → checkered
- a decisive moment in his career
- 在他生涯中的紧要关头 → decisive
- to enter a career
- 开始一种生涯 → enter
- at the threshold of a new career
- 新事业的开端 → threshold
- the top of one's career
- 某人事业的顶点 → top
- His career took off in 1997.
- 1997年他的事业开始有了起色。 → career
- If you work hard, your career I'm sure will advance and maybe one day you'll be the boss in here.
- 如果你努力工作，我确信你的事业会有起色，也许有一天你会成为这里的老板。 → advance
- Have you really decided on a career in the army? What about your girlfriend?
- 你真的已经决定去过军旅生活了？那你女朋友怎么办？ → army
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