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
- In the formation cause of personality test, there is remarkable difference in economic level, stature and appearance and avocation between the impoverished and non-impoverished college students ( P< 0.01);
在人格成因测验中，贫困大学生与非贫困大学生在经济水平、身材相貌、业余爱好方面具有显著差异（P<0.01）； - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - I just want an avocation that is relaxing and enjoyable.
我只想要一个放松的让人愉快的爱好。 - 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； - 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。 - 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。 - 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。