承前启后 (承前啟後)
chéng qián qǐ hòu
Pinyin

Definition

承前启后 (承前啟後)
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chéng qián qǐ hòu
  1. to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition
  2. forming a bridge between earlier and later stages

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

之前
zhī qián
  1. 1 before
  2. 2 prior to
  3. 3 ago
  4. 4 previously
  5. 5 beforehand
以前
yǐ qián
  1. 1 before
  2. 2 formerly
  3. 3 previous
  4. 4 ago
前
qián
  1. 1 front
  2. 2 forward
  3. 3 ahead
  4. 4 first
  5. 5 top (followed by a number)
  6. 6 future
  7. 7 ago
  8. 8 before
  9. 9 BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. 10 former
  11. 11 formerly
上前
shàng qián
  1. 1 to advance
  2. 2 to step forward
传承
chuán chéng
  1. 1 to pass on (to future generations)
  2. 2 passed on (from former times)
  3. 3 a continued tradition
  4. 4 an inheritance

Idioms (20)

一往无前
yī wǎng wú qián
  1. 1 to advance courageously (idiom)
  2. 2 to press forward
一脉相承
yī mài xiāng chéng
  1. 1 traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)
不听老人言，吃亏在眼前
bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián
  1. 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不顾前后
bù gù qián hòu
  1. 1 regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
五百年前是一家
wǔ bǎi nián qián shì yī jiā
  1. 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)

Sample Sentences

不一致啊？还以为爱因斯坦的理论来源是牛顿的经典理论呢，他们有承前启后的关系。
bù yīzhì ā ？hái yǐwéi Àiyīnsītǎn de lǐlùn láiyuán shì Niúdùn de jīngdiǎn lǐlùn ne ，tāmen yǒu chéngqiánqǐhòu de guānxi 。
Not entirely the same? I'd thought that Einstein's theories came from Newton's classic theory, and that Einstein was essentially continuing Newton's work.
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