世俗
shì sú
Pinyin

Definition

世俗
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shì sú
  1. profane
  2. secular
  3. worldly

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

世界
shì jiè
  1. 1 world
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
乱世
luàn shì
  1. 1 the world in chaos
  2. 2 troubled times
  3. 3 (in Buddhism) the mortal world
一生一世
yī shēng yī shì
  1. 1 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
世
Shì
  1. 1 surname Shi
世上
shì shàng
  1. 1 on earth

Idioms (20)

一生一世
yī shēng yī shì
  1. 1 a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life
世上无难事，只怕有心人
shì shàng wú nán shì , zhǐ pà yǒu xīn rén
  1. 1 there is nothing the determined person can't accomplish (idiom)
  2. 2 persistence will overcome
世代相传
shì dài xiāng chuán
  1. 1 passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
世态炎凉
shì tài yán liáng
  1. 1 the hypocrisy of the world (idiom)
世风日下
shì fēng rì xià
  1. 1 public morals are degenerating with each passing day (idiom)

Sample Sentences

你们这些年轻人真是想得开，思想观念那么超前，也不惧怕世俗的眼光。
nǐmen zhèxiē niánqīngrén zhēn shì xiǎngdekāi ，sīxiǎng guānniàn nàme chāoqián ，yě bù jùpà shìsú de yǎnguāng 。
You young people really are quite philosophical about these kinds of things and so forward thinking in your ideas. And you really don't care about what other people think either.
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圣人是不会受到外物牵绊，而且能够随着世俗的改变自我调整的。既然世人都混浊了，您为什么不干脆也一起用水底的烂泥来弄脏水波呢？
shèngrén shì bùhuì shòudào wàiwù qiānbàn ，érqiě nénggòu suízhe shìsú de gǎibiàn zìwǒ tiáozhěng de 。jìrán shìrén dōu hùnzhuó le ，nín wèishénme bù gāncuì yě yīqǐ yòng shuǐdǐ de lànní lái nòng zāng shuǐbō ne ？
Saints are not affected by external forces and they can adjust themselves to societal changes. Since all men have been dirtied, why don't you also just use the mud at the bottom of the river to dirty the river water.
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我啊，宁愿跳进湘水中，葬身在江鱼的肚子里，又怎能够让自己洁白的灵魂受到世俗尘埃的污染呢！
wǒ ā ，nìngyuàn tiào jìn xiāngshuǐ zhōng ，zàngshēn zài jiāng yú de dùzi lǐ ，yòu zěn nénggòu ràng zìjǐ jiébái de línghún shòudào shìsú chénāi de wūrǎn ne ！
Me? I would rather jump into the Xiang river, and be buried in the stomaches of the Xiang river fish. So how could I allow my innocent soul to be polluted by the dust of our world.
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