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Let’s learn about the idiom 「避世離俗」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

It means to escape from the corrupt world and transcend the mundane world.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bì shì lí sú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bei6 sai3 lei4 juk6

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