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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
impressive / out of the ordinary
profane / secular / worldly
custom / tradition / local tradition / convention
HSK 7-9
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
vulgar / poor taste
prevalent custom of the time
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
accumulated habits become custom
former custom; old ways
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
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
bad habit / evil custom / vulgarity
(idiom) to reform habits and customs
unable to break the custom (idiom) / bound by conventions
marriage custom
to show poor taste
cannibalism
to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)
Buddhist monks and secular people
lay (as opposed to clergy) / ordinary / commonplace
(idiom) to withdraw from society and live in seclusion
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
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
to explain in simple terms


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