Dictionary / Vocabulary / 時勢
じせい
(trend of) the times; current of the times; spirit of the age
毎日新聞を読みなさい、さもないと時勢におくれます。
Read the newspaper every day, or you will fall behind the times.
彼は時勢に遅れないために新聞を読む。
He reads the newspaper in order to keep up with the times.
彼の思想は時勢と相いれなかった。
His ideas were out of harmony with the times.