hobby

noun

/ˈhɒbi/

/ˈhɑːbi/

(plural hobbies)

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an activity that you do for pleasure when you are not working業餘愛好
- Do you have any hobbies?你有什麽業餘愛好嗎 ?
- Her hobbies include swimming and gardening.她愛好遊泳和園藝。
- Why don't you take up a new hobby?你爲什麽不找一樣新的消遣 ?
- My favourite hobby is definitely scuba diving.我最大的愛好絕對是潛水。
- as a hobby I only play jazz as a hobby.我彈奏爵士樂只是一種業餘愛好。
Synonyms interest
interest
- hobby
- game
- pastime
These are all words for activities that you do for pleasure in your spare time.
- interest an activity or a subject that you do or study for pleasure in your spare time:
  Her main interests are music and gardening.她的主要愛好是音樂和園藝。
- hobby an activity that you do for pleasure in your spare time:
  His hobbies include swimming and cooking.他愛好遊泳和烹飪。
- game a children’s activity when they play with toys, pretend to be somebody else, etc.; an activity that you do to have fun:
  a game of cops and robbers警察抓強盜的遊戲
  He was playing games with the dog.他在逗狗玩。
- pastime an activity that people do for pleasure in their spare time:
  Eating out is the national pastime in France.在法國，下館子是全國性的消遣活動。
interest, hobby or pastime?用 interest、hobby 還是 pastime？A hobby is often more active than an interest: His main hobby is football (= he plays football). • His main interest is football (= he watches and reads about football, and may or may not play it). Pastime is used when talking about people in general; when you are talking about yourself or an individual person it is more usual to use interest or hobby: Eating out is the national interest/hobby in France. • Do you have any pastimes? Patterns
- a popular interest/hobby/pastime
- to have/share interests/hobbies
- to take up/pursue a(n) interest/hobby
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Extra Examples
- Cooking is her pet hobby.烹調是她最喜歡的消遣。
- Cycling and karate are among her hobbies.騎車和空手道都屬於她的業餘愛好。
- He collects postcards as a hobby.他把收集明信片當成業餘愛好。
- Photography can be an expensive hobby.攝影會是一項費錢的愛好。
- She never had any time to pursue her hobbies.她從來沒有時間搞自己的業餘愛好。
- He wanted to turn his hobby into a business.他想把他的愛好變成生意。
- They spent their retirement enjoying hobbies and taking trips.他們退休後喜歡愛好和旅行。
Topics Hobbiesa1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- enjoyable
- fun
- interesting
- …
verb + hobby
- have
- enjoy
- indulge
- …
preposition
- among your hobbies
- as a hobby
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Word Originlate Middle English hobyn, hoby, from pet forms of the given name Robin. Originally referring to a small horse or pony, it later came to denote a toy horse or hobby horse, hence ‘an activity done for pleasure’.

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