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social custom / CL: 個|个
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  *俗* | 俗* | *俗
custom / convention / popular / common / coarse / vulgar / secular
HSK 7-9
common / everyday / average
HSK 7-9
popular custom
HSK 7-9
custom / tradition / local tradition / convention
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb / colloquial speech
HSK 7-9
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement / customary convention
HSK 7-9
vulgar / tacky / tawdry
HSK 7-9
as the proverb says / as they say...
HSK 7-9
commonly referred to as / common term
to be cynical / to be embittered
profane / secular / worldly
conventional patterns / cliché
vulgar / poor taste
(idiom) to reform habits and customs
vernacular name / lay name (of a priest)
the mundane world; the world of mortals
common people; ordinary folk
tacky / inelegant / in poor taste / vulgar / banal
vulgar
common people / laity (i.e. not priests)
free from vulgarity / refined / outstanding
bad habit / evil custom / vulgarity
prevalent fashion (often used pejoratively) / vulgar customs
to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)
can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
universally shocking / to offend the whole of society
former custom; old ways
lay (as opposed to clergy) / ordinary / commonplace
laymen / laity
to cater to the public's taste / kitsch / commercial
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
offending public morals (idiom)
according to custom / to do as local custom requires / do as the Romans do
layman / layperson / original home of a monk
to conform to no conventional pattern / unconventional / offbeat
mundane world
everyday routine / ordinary affairs
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
intolerably vulgar
undesirable customs
etiquette / custom
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
common saying / proverb
vulgar / philistine
unable to break the custom (idiom) / bound by conventions
When you enter a country, enquire about the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
prevalent custom of the time
clichéd
to explain in simple terms
impressive / out of the ordinary
debasement; vulgarization
Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父|许廑父
popular fiction / light literature
vulgar style (used of items to be censored)
vulgarization
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才
clichéd / tacky
common sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs
(slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á])
customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners / O Tempora, O Mores!
lit. when you enter a country, follow the local customs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do
bad habits / to get into bad habits through long custom
Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩
folklore
folk customs
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
accumulated habits become custom
to become accustomed to sth through long practice
one's habits change with long custom
to show poor taste
peddlers and common people / lower class
to put it in simple terms, ...
easy to understand
popular science
to defy the times and reject custom (idiom); in breach of current conventions
to withdraw from society and live like a hermit (idiom)
cannibalism


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