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
- 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。 - In fact, fishing is my avocation.
事实上，钓鱼是我的一大嗜好。 - 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？ - 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； - 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 and his brother then returned to their former avocation, for how long is uncertain.
他和他的兄弟然后返回他们原先兴趣，多久是不确定的。 - He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
他的职业是医生，副业是作家。 - 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。 - As far as avocation is concained, Jane and her sister have hardly anything in common.
就业余爱好而言，珍妮和她妹妹几乎没有什么共同之处。 - Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.
学外语是我的业余爱好。