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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

cit viu svef, paq viu sie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cit viu svef, paq viu sie; cit'viu svef/svy, paq'viu sie [[...]][i#] [p.]

Death comes in many forms. All are born in the same fashion but thereafter life takes an infinite variety of courses.

一種生,百種死。

koanthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: koafn'thaau [[...]][i#] [p.]

boundary, border, key point

關頭

• svesie ee koanthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef'sie ee koafn'thaau [[...]][i#] [p.]
  the moment between life and death
  生死的關頭

oarnsvef bøo oarnsie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: oaxn'svef bøo oaxn'sie [[...]][i#] [p.]

after a person is dead, forget about past differences (Lit. You can dispute or fight about something with a living person but not with a dead person.)

怨生不怨死

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

Svy bøo toax`laai, sie bøo toax`khix. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef bøo toax'laai, sie bøo toax'khix; svef/svy bøo toax'laai, sie bøo toax'khix [[...]][i#] [p.]

did not bring with one at birth, and cannot carry away at death, "Naked I came into the world And naked I leave the world."

生不帶來,死不帶去。

svezeeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef'zeeng; svef/svy'zeeng [[...]][i#] [p.]

during one's lifetime, before one's death, while one was alive

生前

• svezeeng syau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef'zeeng sie'au [[...]][i#] [p.]
  during life and after death
  生前死後

svisie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef'sie [[...]][i#] [p.]

alive or dead, life or death

生死

• taang svesie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: taang svef'sie [[...]][i#] [p.]
  sharing life or death with each other
  同生死

• kab y pviax-svesie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kab y pviax svef'sie; kab y pviax-svef/svy'sie [[...]][i#] [p.]
  engage in a determined feud or conflict
  跟他拼命

svesy'mngg [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef'sie'mngg; svef/svy'sie'mngg [[...]][i#] [p.]

an important point where error is fatal

生死關頭,緊要關頭

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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