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aq [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: aq [[...]][i#] [p.]

duck, drake

鴨子

• Chitgøeh-pvoax ah'ar mxzay sie. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Chid'goeh'pvoax'aq'ar m'zay sie. Chid'gøeh-pvoax aq'ar m'zay sie. (Chid'goeh'pvoax aq'ar m zay sie'oah.) [[...]][i#] [p.]
  unaware of impending calamity (Refers to a duck in the middle of the seventh month, when ducks are usually offered to the spirits of the dead, yet do not know enough to fear death. — Similar to a turkey just before Thanksgiving), used to scold someone who is without fear in spite of impending calamity (Lit. On fifteenth of the seventh lunar month, the duck does not know it is soon be slaughtered to be eaten during the feast.)
  危在旦夕,還不知。

• ah'afzhuix borng løf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: aq'ar'zhuix borng løf [[...]][i#] [p.]
  make an attempt or ask a favor with very small hope of success but may just as well make the attempt (like a duck's bill dabbling about in the air while eating)
  姑妄要求

• ah'ar thviaf luii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: aq'ar thviaf luii [[...]][i#] [p.]
  hear what someone says but cannot understand (like a duck hearing thunder not knowing what all the noise is about)
  鴨子聽打雷,聽不懂

• ahbør-tøee [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: aq'bør'tee aq'bør-tøee [[...]][i#] [p.]
  flat footed clumsily gaited person (Lit. sole of a duck's foot), a man whose foot is very broad and flat at the instep instead of having the usual concave)
  平板腳

zaisie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zay'sie [[...]][i#] [p.]

recognizing the gravity of the situation

自知不妙

Chitgøeh-pvoax [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Chid'goeh-pvoax Chid'gøeh-pvoax (Tiofng'goaan) [[...]][i#] [p.]

fifteenth of the seventh lunar month, special day for worship of ancestral tablets

七月十五,中元

• chitgøeh-pvoax ah'ar mxzaisie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: chid'goeh-pvoax aq'ar m'zay'sie chid'gøeh-pvoax aq'ar m'zay'sie [[...]][i#] [p.]
  said of a person acting foolishly or wickedly in spite of impending calamity (Lit. On fifteenth of the seventh lunar month, the duck does not know it is soon be slaughtered to be eaten during the feast.)
  七月半的鴨子不知死,死到臨頭不知憂。

cynzay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cirn'zay [[...]][i#] [p.]

earthquake disaster

震災

• Cid pae ee cynzay sysiongciar u paq goa laang. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Cid pae ee cirn'zay sie'siofng'ciar u paq goa laang. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  In this earthquake there were over a hundred dead and injured
  這次的震災死傷者有一百多個人。

mxzay syoah [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: m'zay sie'oah [[...]][i#] [p.]

heedless of consequences, reckless, no idea of the fitness of things

不知死活

sie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sie (suo) [[...]][i#] [p.]

die, die for, dead, death, used as an intensive or superlative, very, lifeless, inanimate, insensible, persevering, resolute, fixed or unchangeable

死

• zaisie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zay'sie [[...]][i#] [p.]
  recognize the gravity of the situation
  自知不妙

• cib sykoad [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cib sie'koad [[...]][i#] [p.]
  very obstinate
  固執

• haixsie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hai'sie [[...]][i#] [p.]
  cause some one to die by a plot
  害死

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