故态复萌 meaning in Chinese
return to one's old habits; resume one's former manner; revert to one's old way of life; play one's old tricks again; relapse into error; go [slip] back to [into] one's old way of doing things; return [resume] to one's old manners; return to one's old vices; be up to one's old trick(s) again; go back to a bad [reprehensible] way of behaving; lapse into one's former habits [ways]; return to life; old habits come back again
Examples
- He is a reformed criminal who may yet backslide .
他是个经过改造的罪犯，然而仍有可能故态复萌。 - Unfortunately, most of them relapse to alcohol abuse .
不幸的是，他们中的大多数人故态复萌，又纵酒了。 - She is a relapsed heretic, obstinate incorrigible, and altogether unworthy of the mercy we have shown her .
她是个故态复萌的异端分子，顽固不化，不可救药，完全不配享受咱们恩赐给他的仁慈。 - The scoffer in me made fun of my piety and predicted that i would be my usual self the moment i returned to new york .
我心中那个调皮鬼又在嘲笑我的虔诚，并且预言我一回到纽约一定会故态复萌。 - After some time he returned to his old habit
过了一些时候，他又故态复萌了。