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
- 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。 - Ornithology happens to be my avocation.
鸟类学其实是我的爱好。 - 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。 - Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.
教书是我的职业,写作是我的副业。 - 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; - 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。 - In fact, fishing is my avocation.
事实上,钓鱼是我的一大嗜好。 - 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。 - 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。