day job
英 [ˈdeɪ dʒɒb]
美 [ˈdeɪ dʒɑːb]
n. 日常的有薪工作; (白天的)正职
习惯用语
n.
- don't give up the day job
- 别放弃白天的正职（别放弃老本行去尝试没有把握的新事物）
used to tell sb that they should continue doing what they are used to, rather than trying sth new which they are likely to fail at - So you want to be a writer? Well my advice is, don't give up the day job.
这么说你想成为一个作家了？得了，我劝你不要放弃老本行。
牛津词典
noun
- 日常的有薪工作；（白天的）正职
the paid work that sb normally does
柯林斯词典
- PHRASE 不要放弃正职
If someone tells younot to give up the day job, they are saying that they think you should continue doing what you are good at, rather than trying something new which they think you will fail at.- It's a kind way of telling aspiring novelists, 'Don't give up the day job'.
这是劝诫立志成为小说家者“不要丢了正业”的一种温和方式。
- It's a kind way of telling aspiring novelists, 'Don't give up the day job'.
双语例句
- Getting it down in words was very hard, even though I considered the act of explanation my day job.
即便我想用文字解释我日常的工作都很难。 - You can continue to dance for fun, but separately from your day job.
你可以继续为了兴趣跳舞，但是要把它和工作分开来。 - Eventually he managed to line up a few retailers to stock the loom, and quit his day job.
终于，吴昌俊说服了几家零售商购买彩虹织机，然后他辞去了工作。 - But as Zhang Ni discovers, preventing fires is more than just a one day job.
但是正如ZhangNi发现的，防火不只是一天的工作。 - Of course, I have a day job too.
当然，我也有日常工作。 - Trying lots of different things, while holding on to his day job, led him to come up with a formula: every skill you acquire doubles your chances of success.
亚当斯尝试了很多不同的事物，同时不放弃自己的日常工作，这使他得出了一则公式：你获得的每一种技能可以让你成功的机会增加一倍。 - Be authorized to arrange the employee's day to day job task.
经授权安排员工日常的工作任务。 - Partly it is because my dream is an addition to what I do already: I have not given up the day job.
部分原因在于，我的梦想是我所做事情的附加品：我没有放弃我的日常工作。 - I quit in 2006, and went back to my old day job of journalism.
我在2006年辞去了这份工作，回到传媒业干老本行。 - Nothing wrong with thinking about the future, but some enterprise architects have got a day job as well.
思考将来没有错，但是某些企业架构师也已经找到了一份日常工作。