avocation

英 [ˌævəʊˈkeɪʃn]

美 [ˌævoʊˈkeɪʃn]

n.  业余爱好

复数：avocations　

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牛津词典

noun

• 业余爱好
  a hobby or other activity that you do for interest and enjoyment

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 业余爱好;副业
  Youravocationis a job or activity that you do because you are interested in it, rather than to earn your living.
  1. He was a printer by trade and naturalist by avocation.
     他从事印刷业，同时是个博物学爱好者。

英英释义

noun

• an auxiliary activity
  Synonym:by-linehobbypursuitsidelinespare-time activity

双语例句

• In fact, fishing is my avocation.
  事实上，钓鱼是我的一大嗜好。
• And so the staff is a captive audience for their manager's jazz-band gigs, elegies over his approach shot to the17th green, or any other avocation mistaken as part of the vocation.
  所以员工们就成了上司的忠实听众，听他们的爵士乐队表演、对高尔夫球的高谈阔论或其他被错当成工作内容的业余爱好。
• He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
  他的职业是医生，副业是作家。
• Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.
  教书是我的职业，写作是我的副业。
• In the watershed, industry avocation and fruit are main income sources, the amount and sources of income in different type of village have a great difference.
  该小流域工副业和果业是农民收入的主要来源，不同村落类型间农民收入及收入构成差异显著；
• He was a printer by trade and naturalist by avocation.
  他从事印刷业，同时是个博物学爱好者。
• People's hobby or avocation, aggrandize is, Is it human's babyism or animal's progress?
  生活，把它夸大，真不知是人类的愚昧还是动物的进步？
• Job openings in this field are limited, and many students pursue this as an avocation.
  工作缺口有限，很多学生将学习这门课程作为业余爱好。
• My greatest avocation is musing. I can stay by myself for a long time without feeling disconsolate in the least.
  我的最大爱好是深思默想。我可以一个人长时间地独处而感到愉快。
• Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that's all I do.
  写字是我的职责，也是我的业余爱好；那是我的全部工作所在。