avocation
avocation 英 [ˌævəʊˈkeɪʃn] 美 [ˌævoʊˈkeɪʃn]
n. 副业；业余爱好；嗜好
名词复数:avocations
- An avocation is an activity that you pursue when you're not at work — a hobby. Pretty much anything can be an avocation: tennis, sudoku, writing poetry. If you're the journalist Clark Kent, your avocation is changing into a skintight red and blue jumpsuit and fighting crime.
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- n. 副业；业余爱好；嗜好
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1. Writing poems is just an avocation with me.
写诗不过是我的一个业余爱好而已。
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2. Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.
教书是我的职业，写作是我的副业。
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3. 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。
- avocation (n.) 1610s, "a calling away from one's occupation;" 1640s, "that which calls one away from one's proper business," from Latin avocationem (nominative avocatio) "a calling away, distraction, diversion," noun of action from past participle stem of avocare "to call off, call away," from ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + vocare "to call" (from PIE root *wekw- "to speak"). Commonly, but improperly, "one's regular business, vocation" (1660s). Earlier (1520s) in a legalistic sense "calling to a higher court."
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