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avocation

英 [ˌævəʊˈkeɪʃn]

美 [ˌævoʊˈkeɪʃn]

n.  业余爱好

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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

      双语例句

      • 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。
      • And so the staff is a captive audience for their manager's jazz-band gigs, elegies over his approach shot to the17th green, or any other avocation mistaken as part of the vocation.
        所以员工们就成了上司的忠实听众,听他们的爵士乐队表演、对高尔夫球的高谈阔论或其他被错当成工作内容的业余爱好。
      • 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。
      • Learning ballet is just an avocation with me.
        学习芭蕾舞只不过是我的一项业余爱好。
      • 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。
      • Ornithology happens to be my avocation.
        鸟类学其实是我的爱好。
      • 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。
      • He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
        他的职业是医生,副业是作家。
      • 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。