profession

職業

通常、特別な訓練や教育、技能が必要な仕事。

やさしい英語で： A job that usually requires special training, education, or skills.

• Teaching is a demanding profession.
• She is a lawyer by profession.
• What made you choose this profession?

使い方： by profession (He is an engineer by profession.)

類義語： occupation, career

よく使う表現： choose a profession, teaching profession, by profession

職業集団、業界

同じ専門的な仕事をする人たち全体を、一つの集団として見たもの。

やさしい英語で： All the people who do a particular skilled job, considered as a group.

• The medical profession welcomed the new treatment.
• She is respected throughout the legal profession.
• The teaching profession faces many challenges.

よく使う表現： medical profession, legal profession, teaching profession

表明、告白

信じていることや気持ちを述べること。本心とは限らない。

やさしい英語で： A statement of what you believe or feel, which may not be sincere.

• His profession of faith surprised his family.
• She doubted his repeated professions of love.
• Despite his professions of innocence, nobody believed him.

使い方： a profession of something (His profession of loyalty failed to convince her.)

類義語： declaration, avowal

よく使う表現： profession of faith, profession of innocence, profession of love