avocation

英 [ˌævəʊˈkeɪʃn]

美 [ˌævoʊˈkeɪʃn]

n.  业余爱好

复数：avocations　

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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。
• Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.
  学外语是我的业余爱好。
• 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；
• 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 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• Dance, then, isa avocation for you.
  那么跳舞对你来说就是一个“副业”。
• 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。
• 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。