The Vocabulary of Flexibility

变通 To adapt. To act according to the actual situation, not bound by convention. The word is old. The Book of Changes says: “Nothing changes and gets through more than the four seasons.”

通融 To make an exception for someone. To stretch the rules as a favor.

合情合理 To accord with feeling and with reason. The everyday word for “reasonable.”

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