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蹈:踩,引伸为遵循;常:常规,老规矩;袭:沿袭;故:老办法。因循守旧,照老规矩办事。
[go on in the same old way;be a slave to old methods of doing things;follow the conventional tradition] 墨守成规,沿用旧法。指照老规矩办事 后之君子,蹈常而袭故,惴惴焉惧不免于天下。——宋· 苏轼《伊尹论》