要没有赵市长 能有你今天
“How could you achieve all this without Mayor Zhao?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Weren't you promoted by Mayor Zhao?”
要 没有 赵市长 能有你 今天
“How could you achieve all this without Mayor Zhao?”
那你可能不知道
“You may not even know.”
“You owe your entire career to him, so stop acting like you are above him.”
In Chinese bureaucratic and professional culture, loyalty to the mentor or leader who promoted you is considered a supreme moral obligation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if it were not for...
A spoken conditional pattern used to emphasize indispensable help received from someone in the past.
could you be where you are today?
A rhetorical phrase commonly employed to remind someone of gratitude or check their arrogance.