avocation

noun

1. 业余爱好
   a hobby or other activity that you do for interest and enjoyment

1. N-VAR 业余爱好;副业
   Your avocation is 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。

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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. Dance, then, isa avocation for you.
   那么跳舞对你来说就是一个“副业”。
5. 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。
6. Ornithology happens to be my avocation.
   鸟类学其实是我的爱好。
7. Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.
   学外语是我的业余爱好。
8. 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。
9. 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；
10. Learning foreign lauguagrs is just an avocation with me.
    学习外语是我一项业余爱好。
11. 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。
12. He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
    他的职业是医生，副业是作家。
13. 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。
14. In fact, fishing is my avocation.
    事实上，钓鱼是我的一大嗜好。
15. Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.
    教书是我的职业，写作是我的副业。
16. 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。
17. Job openings in this field are limited, and many students pursue this as an avocation.
    工作缺口有限，很多学生将学习这门课程作为业余爱好。
18. 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。
19. Journalism as a profession will share the stage with journalism as an avocation.
    将会有更多的人把新闻业作为一种业余爱好而参与进来。
20. 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。
21. My greatest avocation is musing. I can stay by myself for a long time without feeling disconsolate in the least.
    我的最大爱好是深思默想。我可以一个人长时间地独处而感到愉快。
22. 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？
23. 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；
24. 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）；
25. 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。
26. Under the new situations and circumstances of a worldwide avocation of energy conservation and reduction of pollutant emission, the wind energy, as the representative of the renewable energy sources has caused extensive concern.
    在全球大力提倡节能减排的新形势下，以风能为代表的可再生能源得到了广泛关注。

noun

1. an auxiliary activity

   Synonym:    by-linehobbypursuitsidelinespare-time activity