avocation
n. <正>业余爱好,嗜好; <罕>职业
Your avocation is a job or activity that you do because you are interested in it, rather than to earn your living.
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. an auxiliary activity
His vocation coincides with his avocation.
他的职业同他的爱好完全一致.
Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.
学习外语只不过是我的一项业余爱好.
He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
他的职业是医生,副业是作家.
Writing poems is an avocation with me.
写诗只不过是我的一个业余爱好而已.
My uncle, an accountant, composes music as an avocation.
我叔叔是一位会计师, 作曲是他的嗜好.