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Today’s idiom is 「遁世絕俗」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

It refers to living in seclusion and cutting off worldly contacts. Same as “retreat from the world”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dùn shì jué sú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

deun6 sai3 jyut6 juk6

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