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 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....
He wrote a splendid polemic in my favour.他写了一篇出色的文章为我辩护....a polemic against the danger of secret societies...抨击秘密社团危险性的论辩The book is both a history and a passionate polemic for tolerance.这本书既是一段历史，也是一篇主张宽容的激情论辩。The New ...
He lived long enough to see in the new millennium.他活到了新千年.The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来.Acupuncture was practised in China as long ago as the third millennium BC.中国早在公元前3,000年就已...