前不见古人，后不见来者

前不見古人，後不見來者
qiánbùjiàngǔrén,hòubùjiànláizhě
  1. unique
  2. unprecedented (idiom)

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Entry Composition

1 前 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. former
  11. formerly
2 不见 bùjiàn
  1. not to see
  2. not to meet
  3. to have disappeared
  4. to be missing
3 古人 gǔrén
  1. people of ancient times
  2. the ancients
  3. extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis
  4. (literary) deceased person
=4 后 hòu
  1. empress
  2. queen
  3. (archaic) monarch
  4. ruler
=4 后 hòu
  1. back
  2. behind
  3. rear
  4. afterwards
  5. after
  6. later
  7. post-
5 不见 bùjiàn
  1. not to see
  2. not to meet
  3. to have disappeared
  4. to be missing
6 来者 láizhě
  1. (archaic) one coming to pay homage; submitter
  2. (archaic) the following; the next in sequence; follow-up
  3. (literary) future generations
  4. (literary) the future; future events
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 來 /来 (lái), 者 (zhě).
  6. future generations
  7. one coming to pay homage; submitter
  8. the following; the next in sequence; follow-up
  9. the future; future events

Related entries

绝世 juéshì
  1. unique
  2. exceptional
特 tè
  1. special
  2. unique
  3. distinguished
  4. especially
  5. unusual
  6. very
  7. abbr. for 特克斯 tèkèsī, tex
我講因特語。

I speak Interlingua.

Source: Tatoeba

独一 dúyī
  1. only
  2. unique
举世无双 jǔshìwúshuāng
  1. unrivaled (idiom); world number one
  2. unique
  3. unequaled
无双 wúshuāng
  1. incomparable
  2. matchless
  3. unique
俗話說：雙喜臨門；可俗話又說：福無雙進，禍不單行！

There’s a saying that goes, "Fortune always comes in pairs." But there’s another saying that says, "Fortune comes, but never in pairs, while misfortune always does."

Source: Tatoeba

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