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.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• Of course, I have a day job too.
  当然，我也有日常工作。
• Trying lots of different things, while holding on to his day job, led him to come up with a formula: every skill you acquire doubles your chances of success.
  亚当斯尝试了很多不同的事物，同时不放弃自己的日常工作，这使他得出了一则公式：你获得的每一种技能可以让你成功的机会增加一倍。
• Don't give up your day job.
  不要放弃你的白天正式工作。
• I quit in 2006, and went back to my old day job of journalism.
  我在2006年辞去了这份工作，回到传媒业干老本行。
• 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。
• Career is not just your day job anymore& career is how you spend all your time.
  职业生涯不只是你的日常工作了职业生涯是如何，你都用你的时间。
• It is just part of their day job.
  相关审查只不过是他们日常工作的一部分而已。
• 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。
• 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。
• Eventually he managed to line up a few retailers to stock the loom, and quit his day job.
  终于，吴昌俊说服了几家零售商购买彩虹织机，然后他辞去了工作。