可谁人能想我们只求原职留任
“Who would think we only seek to remain in our current positions?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Everyone else is trying to climb the ranks.”
可 谁人能想 我们只求 原职留任
“Who would think we only seek to remain in our current positions?”
刘漕司在吏部经营多年
“Commissioner Liu has built solid ties in the Ministry of Personnel over the years.”
“We are not greedy for promotions; we just wanted to keep our jobs, yet even that is impossible.”
In traditional imperial bureaucracy, maintaining an existing office without getting purged or demoted was often a delicate survival strategy amidst factional strife.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to remain in one's current post without promotion or transfer
A formal administrative term used when an official stays in the same position.
who would have thought
A literary rhetorical phrase expressing surprise at an unexpected reality.
