to enjoy the benefits of the hard work of one's predecessors. (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation前人栽树，后人乘凉
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there has never been and never will be another person like this (idiom) / never done before and unlikely to be matched in the future / peerless
Headword or pronunciation前无古人，后无来者
founder
Headword or pronunciation创立人
founder (of an institution etc)
Headword or pronunciation创办人
a cut above / top quality
Headword or pronunciation加人一等
to help others
Headword or pronunciation助人
pleasure from helping others
Headword or pronunciation助人为快乐之本
(idiom) breathtaking / deeply affecting
Headword or pronunciation动人心魄
working people / the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past
Headword or pronunciation劳动人民
laborer / service worker (typically employed on a contractual or temporary basis)
Headword or pronunciation劳务人员
snob
Headword or pronunciation势利小人
sexy / seductive
Headword or pronunciation勾人
craftsman / artisan
Headword or pronunciation匠人
(idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people
Headword or pronunciation十年树木，百年树人
sb condemned by history (idiom)
Headword or pronunciation千古罪人
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom) / It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
Headword or pronunciation千里送鹅毛，礼轻人意重
centaur (mythology)
Headword or pronunciation半人马
(not) a single person / (no) one
Headword or pronunciation半个人
(Tw) (in a research project) collaborator of the investigator(s)
Headword or pronunciation协同主持人
coordinator
Headword or pronunciation协调人
critically ill patient
Headword or pronunciation危重病人
prehistoric man / primitive man
Headword or pronunciation原人
primitive man / prehistoric human
Headword or pronunciation原始人
original cast / former team
Headword or pronunciation原班人马
those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949
Headword or pronunciation去台人员
election participant / candidate
Headword or pronunciation参选人
a crime against humanity
Headword or pronunciation反人道罪
crime against humanity
Headword or pronunciation反人道罪行
inhuman
Headword or pronunciation反人类
crimes against humanity
Headword or pronunciation反人类罪
negative character / bad guy (in a story)
Headword or pronunciation反面人物
wife's uncle
Headword or pronunciation叔丈人
the insured person / the person covered by an insurance policy
Headword or pronunciation受保人
person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence
Headword or pronunciation受刑人
beneficiary
Headword or pronunciation受益人
(law) trustee
Headword or pronunciation受托人
ancient human species such as Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis
Headword or pronunciation古人类
paleoanthropology
Headword or pronunciation古人类学
prehistoric man
Headword or pronunciation史前人
bus crew / driver and conductor
Headword or pronunciation司售人员
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