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avocation [ˌævoʊˈkeɪʃn]

n. 业余爱好,嗜好; 职业;
复数:: avocations
[同义词] 副业;兴趣: minor occupation sideline hobby

例句:

  • 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。
  • Make authorship your avocation, not your vocation.
    把写作当作你的副业, 不要把它当作正业.
  • He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
    他的职业是医生,副业是作家.
  • Yet Prada insists that her vocation and her avocation are unrelated.
    来自NEWYORKER
  • Journalism as a profession will share the stage with journalism as an avocation.
    来自NEWYORKER
  • Try, by every method of avocation and amusement, whether you cannot...get the better of that dejection.
    来自T. Gray