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social custom / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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  *俗* | 俗* | *俗
custom / convention / popular / common / coarse / vulgar / secular
HSK 7-9
as the proverb says / as they say...
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb / colloquial speech
HSK 7-9
impressive / out of the ordinary
tacky / inelegant / in poor taste / vulgar / banal
profane / secular / worldly
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement / customary convention
HSK 7-9
custom / tradition / local tradition / convention
HSK 7-9
to conform to no conventional pattern / unconventional / offbeat
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
common / everyday / average
HSK 7-9
universally shocking / to offend the whole of society
to cater to the public's taste / kitsch / commercial
popular custom
HSK 7-9
vulgar / tacky / tawdry
HSK 7-9
can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
common saying / proverb
HSK 7-9
everyday routine / ordinary affairs
common saying / proverb
clichéd / tacky
commonly referred to as / common term
vulgarization
vulgar / poor taste
popular fiction / light literature
prevalent custom of the time
the mundane world; the world of mortals
lit. when you enter a country, follow the local customs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do
to be cynical / to be embittered
undesirable customs
prevalent fashion (often used pejoratively) / vulgar customs
according to custom / to do as local custom requires / do as the Romans do
common people; ordinary folk
common people / laity (i.e. not priests)
intolerably vulgar
accumulated habits become custom
easy to understand
popular science
former custom; old ways
to put it in simple terms, ...
conventional patterns / cliché
layman / layperson / original home of a monk
customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners / O Tempora, O Mores!
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
clichéd
mundane world
folk customs
vulgar style (used of items to be censored)
offending public morals (idiom)
vulgar
etiquette / custom
to become accustomed to sth through long practice
When you enter a country, enquire about the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
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
one's habits change with long custom
Dramatized history of successive dynasties (from Han to Republican China) by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩
bad habit / evil custom / vulgarity
(idiom) to reform habits and customs
folklore
unable to break the custom (idiom) / bound by conventions
vernacular name / lay name (of a priest)
marriage custom
to show poor taste
cannibalism
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
debasement; vulgarization
to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)
Buddhist monks and secular people
lay (as opposed to clergy) / ordinary / commonplace
peddlers and common people / lower class
(idiom) to withdraw from society and live in seclusion
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
(slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á])
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才
free from vulgarity / refined / outstanding
to defy the times and reject custom (idiom); in breach of current conventions
vulgar / philistine
bad habits / to get into bad habits through long custom
common sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs
to explain in simple terms


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