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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ornithology happens to be my avocation.
  鸟类学其实是我的爱好。
• 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。
• 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。
• Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.
  学外语是我的业余爱好。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。