前人栽树，后人乘凉
词典One generation plants the trees in whose shade another generation rests. One sows and another reaps.：前人栽树，后人乘凉。
1. 把一颗无花果树种成它应该长成的样子，这样老了你就可以坐在它的树荫下。（中国的“前人栽树，后人乘凉”的境界要高的多了。）
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.