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

• 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。
• 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。
• Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.
  学外语是我的业余爱好。
• Dance, then, isa avocation for you.
  那么跳舞对你来说就是一个“副业”。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
  他的职业是医生，副业是作家。
• 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。