day job
英 [ˈdeɪ dʒɒb]
美 [ˈdeɪ dʒɑːb]
n. 日常的有薪工作; (白天的)正职
习惯用语
n.
- don't give up the day job
- 别放弃白天的正职(别放弃老本行去尝试没有把握的新事物)
used to tell sb that they should continue doing what they are used to, rather than trying sth new which they are likely to fail at - So you want to be a writer? Well my advice is, don't give up the day job.
这么说你想成为一个作家了?得了,我劝你不要放弃老本行。
牛津词典
noun
- 日常的有薪工作;(白天的)正职
the paid work that sb normally does
柯林斯词典
- PHRASE 不要放弃正职
If someone tells younot to give up the day job, they are saying that they think you should continue doing what you are good at, rather than trying something new which they think you will fail at.- It's a kind way of telling aspiring novelists, 'Don't give up the day job'.
这是劝诫立志成为小说家者“不要丢了正业”的一种温和方式。
- It's a kind way of telling aspiring novelists, 'Don't give up the day job'.
双语例句
- Of course, I have a day job too.
当然,我也有日常工作。 - Be authorized to arrange the employee's day to day job task.
经授权安排员工日常的工作任务。 - It's a kind way of telling aspiring novelists, 'Don't give up the day job'.
这是劝诫立志成为小说家者“不要丢了正业”的一种温和方式。 - Don't give up your day job.
不要放弃你的白天正式工作。 - Nothing wrong with thinking about the future, but some enterprise architects have got a day job as well.
思考将来没有错,但是某些企业架构师也已经找到了一份日常工作。 - It's safer to stay at your day job.
停留在你现在的工作上比较安全。 - Notch quit his day job and founded a studio, mojang, which now employs over 30 people.
切口先生辞掉了工作,创办了一个叫Mojang的工作室,现在它已经有了30多个员工。 - I want to do my day job on my beautiful toys.
我想用我那些精致的小玩意工作。 - Getting it down in words was very hard, even though I considered the act of explanation my day job.
即便我想用文字解释我日常的工作都很难。 - This is my day job euh.
这是我白天的工作。