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🗣 Zaixsvef cit liap tau, khaq viaa syliao paix ti'thaau./Zaixsvy cit liap tau, khaq viaa syliao paix ti'thaau. 🗣 (u: Zai'svef/svy cit liap tau, khaq viaa sie'liao paix ty'thaau.) 在生一粒豆，較贏死了拜豬頭。 [wt][mo] Tsāi-senn tsi̍t lia̍p tāu, khah iânn sí-liáu pài ti-thâu. [#]

1. () || 父母健在的時候吃兒女孝敬的一顆豆子，勝過去世後兒女才以豬頭來祭拜。提醒人行孝要及時；又指死後子女以盛大喪禮祭拜，雖是風光，卻不如父母在生時略盡奉養之責，只有生前奉養才是真的孝順。傳統禮俗，父母去世時，要準備豬頭做祭拜的大牲禮。

🗣le: Cyn ze laang lorng korng, tarn'kaux seeng'kofng thaxn'toa'cvii, tø e'sae ho pe'buo koex hør jit'cie, m'køq m'thafng be'kix'tid “zai'svef cit liap tau, khaq viaa sie'liao paix ty'thaau”, peeng'sioong'sii khaq ciap tngr'laai ciaux'kox pe'buo khaq iaux'kirn. 🗣 (真濟人攏講，等到成功趁大錢，就會使予爸母過好日子，毋過毋通袂記得「在生一粒豆，較贏死了拜豬頭」，平常時較捷轉來照顧爸母較要緊。) (很多人都說，等到成功賺大錢之後，就能讓父母過好日子，但別忘了「活著的時候吃兒女孝敬的一顆豆子，勝過去世的時候兒女用豬頭來祭拜」，平常多回來照顧父母比較重要。)
tonggi: ; s'tuix:

🗣 zaixsvef/zaixsvy 🗣 (u: zai'svef/svy) 在生 [wt][mo] tsāi-senn/tsāi-sinn [#]

1. (N) || 生前、在世。人活著的時候。

🗣le: Zai'svef ciah cit liap thoo'tau, khaq viaa sie'liao paix cit ee ty'thaau. 🗣 (在生食一粒塗豆，較贏死了拜一个豬頭。) (在世時拿一顆花生孝敬，好過死後用一顆豬頭祭拜。意思是說為人子女應及時孝敬父母，而非等父母死後才隆重祭拜。)
tonggi: ; s'tuix:

zaixzø [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'zø [[...]][i#] [p.]

be present at a gathering

在座

• zaixzø ee zu'ui siensvy, lysu. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'zø ee zw'ui siefn'svy, lie'su. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  Ladies and gentlemen!
  在座的諸位先生, 女士。

• zaixzø ee laang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'zø ee laang [[...]][i#] [p.]
  those present at a gathering
  在座的人

zaixsvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]

be among the living, be living, be in the world, not dead

在世

• Zaixsvef ciah cit liap tau, khahhør syau haux ti'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef ciah cit liap tau, khaq'hør sie'au haux ty'thaau.; Zai'svef/svy ciah cit liap tau, khaq'hør sie'au haux ty'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  It's better to take care of parents while they are alive rather than make a show of being filial at their funeral. (Lit. Better to give parents one bean when living rather than to offer them a pig's head after they die.)
  在生吃一粒豆,勝過死後孝豬頭。父母在世時好好孝敬,比在身後才大事祭拜有意義。

• Zaixsvef m haux na'aau, syau ciaq haux kvoazha'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef m haux naa'aau, sie'au ciaq haux kvoaf'zhaa'thaau.; Zai'svef/svy m haux naa'aau, sie'au ciaq haux kvoaf'zhaa'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  to pay respect to parents after they die after not taking care of them while they were living, unfilial
  父母在生不養,死後才想孝敬。

zaixtviuu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'tviuu [[...]][i#] [p.]

be present, on the spot

在場

• zaixtviuu ee zu'ui siensvy [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'tviuu ee zw'ui siefn'svy [[...]][i#] [p.]
  Gentlemen! (words used at the beginning of a talk)
  在場的諸位先生

• Hid ee suxkox hoatsefng ee sii, y ia zaixtviuu. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Hid ee su'kox hoad'sefng ee sii, y ia zai'tviuu. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  When the accident occurred he was also on the spot.
  那個事故發生時,他也在場。

sve'hun sofzai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef'hun sor'zai; svef/svy'hun sor'zai [[...]][i#] [p.]

unfamiliar place, strange place

陌生地方

zaixsvy [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'svy [[...]] 

be alive, when alive

在世

zaixsvy [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'svy [[...]][i#] [p.21]

VO : be in this life, be alive

在世

u: zai'svy 在生 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.A0584,A0584] [#4380]

在世 ， 生前 。 <∼∼ 無祭嚨喉 , 死了才孝棺柴頭 ; ∼∼ 食一粒鴨母卵khah好死了孝一個大豬頭 ; ∼∼ 不樂死了ka7鬼包袱 。 >

u: svy'zai 生在 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.A0655] [#53235]

出生e5所在 . 。 <∼∼ 蘇杭二州 , 死在福建泉州 ＝ 蘇杭盛大慶祝生日 , 泉州葬式隆重 。 >

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