avocation
n. <正>業餘愛好,嗜好; <罕>職業
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.
他從事印刷業,同時是個博物學愛好者。
1. an auxiliary activity
His vocation coincides with his avocation.
他的職業同他的愛好完全一致.
Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.
學習外語只不過是我的一項業餘愛好.
He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
他的職業是醫生,副業是作家.
Writing poems is an avocation with me.
寫詩只不過是我的一個業餘愛好而已.
My uncle, an accountant, composes music as an avocation.
我叔叔是一位會計師, 作曲是他的嗜好.