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content with one's lot · knowing one's place

安分
ān fèn
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These days many young people work without much focus; my friend's son hadn't gone two years after graduating before he'd changed jobs five times.
现在许多年轻人工作都不太安分，朋友的儿子大学毕业不到两年，已经换了五个工作了。
Synonyms
Synonyms
(to play) one's part · one's role · one's duty · (to stay within) one's bounds · dutiful · keeping to one's role本分běn fènlit. compass and set square · fig. established standard · rule · customs · practices · fig. upright and honest · well-behaved规矩guī juhonest; sincere · well-behaved · naive; gullible老实lǎo shito be content with one's lot (idiom) · to know one's place安分守己ān fèn shǒu jǐto follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly · to act according to convention循规蹈矩xún guī dǎo jǔto follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly · to act according to convention规行矩步guī xíng jǔ bù