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生于忧患，死于安乐
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Definitions
- 1. to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom)
- 2. life springs from sorrow and calamity, death comes from ease and pleasure
Child Words of 生于忧患，死于安乐
happy
to suffer (from illness)
music
(bound form) calm; peaceful
(of time or place) in; at; on
to worry
Anle District of Keelung City 基隆市[jī lóng shì], Taiwan
to be born
see 生於憂患，死於安樂|生于忧患，死于安乐[shēng yú yōu huàn , sǐ yú ān lè]
suffering
to die