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Here’s the idiom 「遭時製宜」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means to adapt to the times.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zāo shí zhì yí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jou1 si4 jai3 yi4

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