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
- In fact, fishing is my avocation.
事实上，钓鱼是我的一大嗜好。 - In the formation cause of personality test, there is remarkable difference in economic level, stature and appearance and avocation between the impoverished and non-impoverished college students ( P< 0.01);
在人格成因测验中，贫困大学生与非贫困大学生在经济水平、身材相貌、业余爱好方面具有显著差异（P<0.01）； - 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。 - Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.
教书是我的职业，写作是我的副业。 - 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。 - 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。 - My uncle, an accountant, composes music as an avocation.
我叔叔是一位会计师，作曲是他的业余爱好。 - 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。 - 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 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；