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Traditional
Pīnyīn
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HSK
social custom / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
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  *俗* | 俗* | *俗
custom / convention / popular / common / coarse / vulgar / secular
HSK 7-9
custom / tradition / local tradition / convention
HSK 7-9
popular custom
HSK 7-9
common / everyday / average
HSK 7-9
vulgar / tacky / tawdry
HSK 7-9
profane / secular / worldly
impressive / out of the ordinary
(idiom) to reform habits and customs
free from vulgarity / refined / outstanding
etiquette / custom
lit. when you enter a country, follow the local customs (idiom) / fig. when in Rome, do as the Romans do
mundane world
universally shocking / to offend the whole of society
to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)
prevalent custom of the time
vulgar / poor taste
to show poor taste
vulgar
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
according to custom / to do as local custom requires / do as the Romans do
When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do / When in Rome, do as the Romans do
to be cynical / to be embittered
offending public morals (idiom)
former custom; old ways
prevalent fashion (often used pejoratively) / vulgar customs
lay (as opposed to clergy) / ordinary / commonplace
to explain in simple terms
Buddhist monks and secular people
to become accustomed to sth through long practice
vulgar / philistine
unable to break the custom (idiom) / bound by conventions
to cater to the public's taste / kitsch / commercial
undesirable customs
to defy the times and reject custom (idiom); in breach of current conventions
bad habits / to get into bad habits through long custom
accumulated habits become custom
marriage custom
folk customs
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
clichéd
(idiom) to withdraw from society and live in seclusion
cannibalism


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