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 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； - Ornithology happens to be my avocation.
鸟类学其实是我的爱好。 - 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 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； - Learning ballet is just an avocation with me.
学习芭蕾舞只不过是我的一项业余爱好。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。