avocation

英 [ˌævəʊˈkeɪʃn]

美 [ˌævoʊˈkeɪʃn]

n.  业余爱好

复数：avocations　

TOEFLGRE法律

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.
  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

• He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
  他的职业是医生，副业是作家。
• Learning foreign lauguagrs is just an avocation with me.
  学习外语是我一项业余爱好。
• 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。
• It studies the effect of agricultural intensivism, peasant avocation, country service system, rural firms, turning countries into towns and developing third industry on Chinese rural surplus labor transfer.
  主要研究了农业集约经营、农户兼业经营、建设民办型农村服务体系、发展乡镇企业、农村城镇化以及发展第三产业等五个方面对中国农村剩余劳动力乡城转移的作用。
• Ornithology happens to be my avocation.
  鸟类学其实是我的爱好。
• 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。
• Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.
  教书是我的职业，写作是我的副业。
• 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。
• Dance, then, isa avocation for you.
  那么跳舞对你来说就是一个“副业”。
• 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。