avocation

英 [ˌævəʊˈkeɪʃn]

美 [ˌævoʊˈkeɪʃn]

n.  业余爱好

复数：avocations　

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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

• 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。
• Learning foreign lauguagrs is just an avocation with me.
  学习外语是我一项业余爱好。
• 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 languages is just an avocation with me.
  学外语是我的业余爱好。
• 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。
• 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。
• In fact, fishing is my avocation.
  事实上，钓鱼是我的一大嗜好。
• Dance, then, isa avocation for you.
  那么跳舞对你来说就是一个“副业”。
• 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。
• Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.
  教书是我的职业，写作是我的副业。