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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
他的职业是医生，副业是作家。 - 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 foreign lauguagrs is just an avocation with me.
学习外语是我一项业余爱好。 - 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。