你早该提起来了
“You should have been promoted earlier.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你 早该提起来了
“You should have been promoted earlier.”
讲究工龄的时候 还有机会
“I still had a chance when it was about working experience.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional Chinese institutions (tizhi), promotions are heavily bound to age limits and years of service (gongling), making missed timing a deep personal regret.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
should have long ago
Expresses that an action was overdue and should have taken place in the past.
to be promoted / elevated
A workplace idiom commonly used in bureaucratic and state-owned systems for cadre promotion.
Marks the overdue nature of the realized condition.
