job

詞意辨析：

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

這些名詞均含“職業”之意。
profession: 以前常指要受過高等教育(尤指法律、醫學和神學)才能獲得的職業，現在一般指為謀生之職，尤指從事腦力勞動和受過專門訓練，具有某種專業知識的工作。
job: 泛指一切有報酬的工作。
occupation: 泛指任何一種職業，比job正式，經常用於書面填表中。
trade: 指技巧、技能型職業。
vocation: 較正式用詞，語氣莊重，有專業及天職之意，以前常用於教會中的職位。
career: 指經過專門訓練，終身願意從事的職業。
work: 指任何種類的工作，也泛指職業。
employment: 指受僱的工作，通常能比較穩定領取工資。

work, task, job

這些名詞均有“工作”之意。
work: 最普通用詞，含義廣，指人們日常生活和工作中所從事的有目的的體力或腦力勞動。
task: 通常指分派給的任務，也指自願的工作，但往往是艱巨或令人厭煩的工作。
job: 多用於口語，側重指受僱用的，以謀生為目的工作，不論有無技術，也不管是零工或散工。英文字典

詞型變化：

動詞過去式:jobbed 過去分詞:jobbed 現在分詞:jobbing 第三人稱單數:jobs 

英文解釋：

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

　

中英例句：

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。