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。 - Learning ballet is just an avocation with me.
学习芭蕾舞只不过是我的一项业余爱好。 - Learning foreign lauguagrs is just an avocation with me.
学习外语是我一项业余爱好。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - In the aspect of revolutionary education thought, he put forward the view that: Education is avocation and There is no construction without knowledge;
在革命教育观方面他提出了教便是宣传，非学问无以建设的主张； - 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？ - 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。