- plant trees for the benefit of posterity
One generation plants the trees under whose shade another generation rests -- profiting by the labour of one's forefathers.
One sows and another reaps.
Ancestors plant trees while descendants enjoy the cool under the tree shade.
enjoying the fruits of labour of one's ancestors or predecessors
- 前人栽树后人乘凉 plant trees for the benefit of posterity
- 前人栽树 one generation plants the trees in whose shade another generation rests
- 后人乘凉 one generation plants the trees in whose shade another generation rests
- 前人开路后人走 one generation opens the road upon which another generation travels
- 栽树 plant trees
- 乘凉 enjoy the cool; relax in a cool place 乘凉兜风 go joy-riding and cool oneself in the breeze; 乘凉歇息 go out into the coolness to refresh oneself; sit in idleness in the shade
- 人乘 one of the five vehicles
- 后人 1.(后代之人) later generations; futurity 后人对我们将如何看待? how will futurity regard us?2.(子孙) posterity; descendants
- 前人 prehominid; predecessors; forefathers 前人总结的经验 experience summed up by our predecessors
- 幕后人 absentee; wire-puller
- 道旁栽树 street planting
- 行道栽树 avenue planting
- 前人,祖先 forearm; forefather
- 前人类 prehuman
- 眼前人 the man in front of me; written by ryu
- 乘凉兜风 go joy riding and cool oneself in the breeze
- 乘凉歇息 go out into the coolness to refresh oneself
- 凭栏乘凉 lean over the balcony enjoying the breeze
- 树下乘凉 enjoy the cool (air) under the tree
- 单人乘员组 one-man crew
- 单人乘座式 single-seater
- 多人乘载 multi people carry
- 二人乘员组 two-man crew
- 双人乘员组 two-man crew
- 前人总结的经验 experience summed up by our predecessors
- 前人所未至的领域 where no man has gone before
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