要从最繁琐的事情做起
“We started with menial tasks.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不像我们当年
“Not like my generation.”
要 从 最繁琐 的事情 做起
“We started with menial tasks.”
打扫卫生
“Cleaning,”
“Stop acting entitled; you need to pay your dues just like we did.”
Senior professionals in China often expect newcomers to 'eat bitterness' (chiku) by doing basic, menial work as a mandatory test of character and loyalty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
tedious chores; cumbersome and trivial tasks
Commonly refers to detailed, repetitive administrative or menial tasks.
start from... / begin by doing...
A standard construction used to designate a starting baseline or first step in a career or project.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I have to start from the bottom.”
“What candidates should do is cut down on superficial work and align themselves with the country's ideologies.”
“I can start from the bottom.”