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avocation 音标拼音: [ ,ævək'eʃən] n. 副业,嗜好 副业,嗜好 avocation n 1: an auxiliary activity [ synonym: { avocation}, { by- line}, { hobby}, { pursuit}, { sideline}, { spare- time activity}] Avocation \ Av` o* ca" tion\, n. [ L. avocatio.] 1. A calling away; a diversion. [ Obs. or Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 2. That which calls one away from one' s regular employment or vocation. [ 1913 Webster] Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts earthly employments avocations. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. -- Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In this sense the word is applied to the smaller affairs of life, or occasional calls which summon a person to leave his ordinary or principal business. Avocation ( in the singular) for vocation is usually avoided by good writers. [ 1913 Webster] 3. pl. Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one' s time; usual employment; vocation. [ 1913 Webster] There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. -- Richardson. [ 1913 Webster] In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. -- Buckle. [ 1913 Webster]
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