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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
common / everyday / average
HSK 7-9
popular custom
HSK 7-9
custom / tradition / local tradition / convention
HSK 7-9
vulgar / tacky / tawdry
HSK 7-9
to be cynical / to be embittered
profane / secular / worldly
vulgar / poor taste
(idiom) to reform habits and customs
vulgar
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)
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
mundane world
undesirable customs
etiquette / custom
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
clichéd
to explain in simple terms
impressive / out of the ordinary
lit. when you enter a country, follow the local customs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do
prevalent custom of the time
bad habits / to get into bad habits through long custom
folk customs
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
accumulated habits become custom
to become accustomed to sth through long practice
to show poor taste
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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