A: What does your friend Jim do?
你的朋友吉姆是干什么的？
B: He is a teacher, but he makes a little money on the side by repairing cars in his free time.
他是一位教師，但是也在空閑時間修理汽車掙點錢。
A: He can repair cares? I cannot believe it.
他能修汽車？我真不敢相信。
B: Believe me, he is the first-class.
相信我，他修車技術是一流的。
地道表達：
on the side
解詞釋義：
side的本義是“側面”。該習語直接翻譯是“在側面”，引申為“作為兼職”。
支持范例：
1. He is a mechanic who buys and sells cars on the side.
他是一個兼營買賣汽車的技工。
2. He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.
他是教師，可還兼職做一些新聞工作。
3. I also sell insurance on the side.
我也兼職做拉保險。
4. We told her that I do some handiwork on the side.
我們告訴了她我兼職做些手工活。
拓展講解：
on the side除了有“作為兼職”的意思，還有“暗地里，秘密地”的意思。
支持范例：
1. She's married but she has a lover on the side.
她雖然已婚,但暗地里還有一個情人。
2. Maybe he boozes on the side.
也許他還暗地里酗酒。
詞海拾貝：
1. makes money：掙錢
He was a businessman, and therefore he always has an eye out for any opportunity to make money.
他是商人，總見錢眼開。
She scarcely makes enough money to make ends meet.
她幾乎掙不到足夠的錢以維持開支。
聯(lián)想記憶：
make easy money：輕松掙錢，掙錢容易 make big money：掙大錢
make a little money：掙一點錢 make more money：掙更多的錢
2. in one's free time：在業(yè)余時間，在閑暇時間
He usually employs himself in reading in his free time.
在空閑時間他通常忙于閱讀。
He augments his wages by working in his free time.
他在業(yè)余時間繼續(xù)工作以增加工資收入。