Before you cut the avocados, make sure they are ripe.

He was going to talk about writing as an avocation.

他打算谈谈业余写作的体会.

Learning foreign languages is just avocation with me.

学外语是我的业余爱好.

He abandoned his regular occupation and concentrated on his avocation.

他放弃了第一职业,集中精力去搞副业.

Dance, then, is a avocation for you.

那么跳舞对你来说就是一个“副业”.

After the course is cogitative, decide development is versed in avocation machines a village.

经过深思熟虑后, 决定开发工副业加工小区.

Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.

教书是我的职业,写作是我的副业.

Bookkeeping is Mr. Jones'vocation, and photography is his avocation.

薄记是琼斯先生的职业, 照像是他的副业.

Learning ballet is just an avocation with me.

学习芭蕾舞只不过是我的一项业余爱好.

Although a physician by vocation, he is a botanist by avocation.

虽然他的职业是医生, 却又是一个业余的植物学家.

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.

Writing poems is an avocation with me.

写诗只不过是我的一个业余爱好而已.

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.

His vocation coincides with his avocation.

他的职业同他的爱好完全一致.

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。

He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.

他的职业是医生,副业是作家.

Make authorship your avocation, not your vocation.

把写作当作你的副业, 不要把它当作正业.

You might call it an avocational hazard.

你可以将之称为一心两用的危险.

I tried to avoid her, but it was just my luck to bump into her.

我不想见她, 偏撞上她了.

I wanted to avoid a meeting with her.

我想避免与她会面.

Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.

避免作出直觉上显而易见却没有根据的论断.