a builder (/founder);a pioneer; sth that cannot be abolished; sth that cannot be done away with; revered earliest ances tors
❍ 这番事业的～如今却被不少人忘却了。Nowadays the pioneers of this cause have been forgotten by many pepole.
不祧之祖bù tiāo zhī zǔ
祧：古代帝王的远祖的祠堂。不祧：不迁入祧庙。指不迁入祧庙的祖先。比喻创立大业而受尊敬的人。revered earliest ancestor, a pioneer, a founder