那第二名别说是望其项背了
“Let alone catching up to him,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
年年的结案率都是他第一
“he has ranked first in case closure rate every single year.”
那 第二名 别说是 望其项背 了
“Let alone catching up to him,”
连他的尾气都够不着
“the second place is nowhere near him.”
“Nobody else even comes close to his level of brilliance.”
Chinese workplaces frequently celebrate stellar individuals with stark, dramatic contrasts to underscore unassailable professional authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to come close to; to catch up with
An idiom almost always used in the negative form (cannot望其项背) to express being vastly outmatched.
let alone; not to mention
Used in colloquial speech to introduce an extreme baseline comparison before revealing an even more drastic reality.