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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。

zhutsvef jibsie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zhud'svef jip'sie; ; [[...]][i#] [p.]

expose oneself to great danger

出生入死

pviax-svesie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: pviax svef'sie; pviax-svef/svy'sie; (pviax-svy'sie) [[...]][i#] [p.]

risk one's life, do at the risk of one's life, place on the same plane, life and death, to struggle for life

拼老命

tangsvef tangsie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: taang'svef taang'sie; ; [[...]][i#] [p.]

to live or die together (in defense of a city or place)

同生同死

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