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

• 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。
• 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；
• Dance, then, isa avocation for you.
  那么跳舞对你来说就是一个“副业”。
• 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。
• 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）；
• In fact, fishing is my avocation.
  事实上，钓鱼是我的一大嗜好。
• 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？
• Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.
  学外语是我的业余爱好。
• 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。