你可是我一手 提拔起来的
“I was the one who promoted you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
徐忠啊
“Xu Zhong.”
你 可是 我一手 提拔 起来 的
“I was the one who promoted you.”
是
“Yes.”
“You owe your entire career to me, so do not even think about betraying me.”
In Chinese bureaucratic culture, receiving promotion from a mentor creates a lifelong moral debt of loyalty; opposing one's patron is widely condemned as disloyalty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
single-handedly promote / groom from the ground up
A powerful four-character idiom describing a mentor who personally sponsored and advanced someone's career.
you are, after all / don't forget that you are
Used to deliver a strong reminder or stress an undeniable identity or obligation.
Emphasizes the established, factual nature of the mentor-protégé bond within the shi...de construction.