师父们在上 请受徒儿一拜
“Masters above, please accept this from your apprentice.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
走开 走开 走开
“Move along, move along.”
师父们在上 请受徒儿一拜
“Masters above, please accept this from your apprentice.”
“What's this? What's this? Get up, get up.”
“I am putting you on the spot with this dramatic bow so you have to accept me!”
Traditionally, taking a master required deep kowtowing (叩拜) to seal a quasi-parental master-disciple relationship; modern usage often feels playfully dramatic.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
above / sitting above in honor
Used in formal or period phrasing like '师父在上' or '父母在上' to acknowledge hierarchical deference.
accept a formal bow from someone
A traditional, ritualistic formulation frequently found in costume dramas or used jokingly for dramatic deference.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's perfectly natural for a master to care about his apprentice.”
“Mentor. Well, it's been 10 years.”
“decided not to accept you as a disciple—”
“Sir. Take care.”
“You taught me thousands of times,”
“the story our master”