avocation
英 [ˌævəʊˈkeɪʃn]
美 [ˌævoʊˈkeɪʃn]
n. 业余爱好
复数：avocations
COCA.25485
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.- 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。
- He was a printer by trade and naturalist by avocation.
英英释义
noun
- an auxiliary activity
双语例句
- Ornithology happens to be my avocation.
鸟类学其实是我的爱好。 - Some parents want their children to give up their avocation and to fix attention to the study. The teacher encouraged the children to behave well and not to be a discredit to the collective.
一些父母要求孩子放弃爱好而集中精力学习。老师鼓励孩子们表现得好一些，不要给集体丢脸。 - Journalism as a profession will share the stage with journalism as an avocation.
将会有更多的人把新闻业作为一种业余爱好而参与进来。 - 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。 - Under the new situations and circumstances of a worldwide avocation of energy conservation and reduction of pollutant emission, the wind energy, as the representative of the renewable energy sources has caused extensive concern.
在全球大力提倡节能减排的新形势下，以风能为代表的可再生能源得到了广泛关注。 - 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。 - In the aspect of revolutionary education thought, he put forward the view that: Education is avocation and There is no construction without knowledge;
在革命教育观方面他提出了教便是宣传，非学问无以建设的主张； - Dance, then, isa avocation for you.
那么跳舞对你来说就是一个“副业”。 - Jane has no common with her sister on avocation. Things will go much Better if people of the same trade make up the other's deficiency from their own surplus.
就业余爱好而言，珍妮和她妹妹几乎没有什么共同之处。同行业之间互通有无，调剂余缺，事情就好办得多了。 - He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
他的职业是医生，副业是作家。