Translation guide
Refers to matters of everyday life, society, or the secular world, often contrasted with spiritual or religious concerns.
To refer to non-religious, practical, or social concerns of daily life.
Common term for secular or worldly affairs, often used in contrast to spiritual or religious matters.
To refer to affairs concerning society, politics, or public life.
Refers to worldly affairs in the sense of social or public matters, often used in phrases like '世事に疎い' (ignorant of the ways of the world).
To refer to concerns about money, status, or material possessions, often with a negative or detached nuance.
Worldly desires or material cravings, often used in religious or philosophical contexts.
僧侶は俗事から離れて修行に専念する。
Monks devote themselves to training, away from worldly affairs.
Refers to the secular world or worldly matters, often with a nuance of being non-religious or common.
He has no interest in worldly success.
Literally 'things of the world', a more colloquial way to refer to worldly affairs.
I'm out of touch with worldly affairs.
彼は世事に疎い。
He is ignorant of worldly affairs.
The secular world, emphasizing the mundane or common society.
I want to escape the entanglements of worldly affairs.
He renounced worldly desires and became a monk.