lay (as opposed to clergy) / ordinary / commonplace
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
mundane world
marriage custom
to cater to the public's taste / kitsch / commercial
debasement / vulgarization
bad habit / evil custom / vulgarity
prevalent custom of the time
unable to break the custom (idiom) / bound by conventions
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
popular custom
folklore
folk customs
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
prevailing customs (often pejorative) / vulgar customs
clichéd
etiquette / custom
(idiom) to reform habits and customs
accumulated habits become custom
established by popular usage (idiom) / common usage agreement / customary convention
to become accustomed to sth through long practice
one's habits change with long custom
free from vulgarity / refined / outstanding
former custom / old ways
to show poor taste
peddlers and common people / lower class
to put it in simple terms, ...
popular fiction / light literature
easy to understand
popular science
to defy the times and reject custom (idiom) / in breach of current conventions
(idiom) to withdraw from society and live in seclusion
to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)
vulgar / philistine
to explain in simple terms
undesirable customs
according to custom / to do as local custom requires / do as the Romans do
can be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike (idiom)
cannibalism
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
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