n.<正>业余爱好,嗜好,<罕>职业
Make authorship your avocation, not your vocation.
把写作当作你的副业, 不要把它当作正业.
He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
他的职业是医生,副业是作家.
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。