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1. For professional footballers, injuries are an occupational hazard.
对于职业足球运动员来说，受伤是职业本身带来的危险。
2. A lawyer is a professional man.
律师是从事专门职业的人。
求职面试
B：How do you rate yourself as a professional？
你如何评估自己是位专业人员呢 ？
A：With my strong academic background, I am capable and competent./With my teaching experience, I am confident that I can relate to students very well.
凭借我 良好的学术背景，我可以胜任自己的工作，而且我认为自己很有竞争力。/依我的教学经验，我相信能与学生相处的很好。
1. 职业运动员：首先应明确区分职业运动员(professional)和业余运动员(amateur)的概念. 两者都源于拉丁语,amateur源于amator,即一个爱好者,完全由于喜爱而从事某种工作,与金钱无关;professional来源proficio,意思是取得进步或获得某些优势,
1. 职业的；专业的
Professional means relating to a person's work, especially work that requires special training.
professional
e.g. His professional career started at Liverpool University.
他的职业生涯是从利物浦大学开始的。
2. （人）职业的，专业的
Professional people have jobs that require advanced education or training.
e.g. ...highly qualified professional people like doctors and engineers.
像医生和工程师这样需要高技能的专业人员
3. 专门从事的；非业余的
You use professional to describe people who do a particular thing to earn money rather than as a hobby.
e.g. This has been my worst time for injuries since I started as a professional footballer...
这是我当职业足球运动员以来受伤来得最不是时候的一次。
e.g. Jack Nicklaus has played in every Major Championship since he turned professional in 1961.
杰克·尼克劳斯自从1961年转为职业选手以来参加了四大赛的所有比赛。
4. （运动）职业性质的
Professional sports are played for money rather than as a hobby.
e.g. ...an art student who had played professional football for a short time.
踢过短时间职业足球的艺术系学生
5. 专业的；内行的；高水平的
If you say that something that someone does or produces is professional, you approve of it because you think that it is of a very high standard.
e.g. They run it with a truly professional but personal touch.
他们的经营既有真正的专业水准又不乏个人特色。
6. see also: semi-professional