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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「從俗浮沉」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Float or sink with the world. It means being able to change with changes in the world or the times.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cóng sú fú chén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chung4 juk6 fau4 cham4
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