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

• I won't quit my day job.
  我不会放弃白天的工作的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't give up your day job.
  不要放弃你的白天正式工作。
• 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。
• Partly it is because my dream is an addition to what I do already: I have not given up the day job.
  部分原因在于，我的梦想是我所做事情的附加品：我没有放弃我的日常工作。
• Like the others, his main reason for attending the training session is to help his day job.
  米德沃斯来上这门课的主要原因与其他人一样，都是为了方便自己的日常工作。
• This is my day job euh.
  这是我白天的工作。
• When he was seven months old, I returned to my day job, working part-time.
  他七个月大的时候，我找了一份兼职，又开始正常的白班工作。