Definition
故态 is a literary noun meaning 'one's former or usual attitude'. It often appears in the fixed expression 故态复萌 (gù tài fù méng), which means 'old habits resurface' or 'to revert to one's old ways'. You'll encounter it in formal or written Chinese, not in everyday conversation.
n.
one's former or usual attitude (literary)
Examples
- ，。Tā gù tài fù méng, yòu kāishǐ le yǐqián de bùliáng xíguàn.His old attitude resurfaced, and he started his bad habits again.
- ，故态，。Jīngguò zhè cì jiàoxùn, tā bú zài jiānchí gù tài, kāishǐ gǎibiàn.After this lesson, he no longer insisted on his old attitude and began to change.
- 故态。Tā de gù tài ràng tóngshìmen hěn bú màn.His usual attitude made his colleagues very dissatisfied.
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