空有一腔抱负 却不能入仕为官
“But ambition alone, without the chance to serve in office,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
有兄台这般胸襟抱负 大厦可有望啊 没错
“With your ambition and vision, there is hope for Great Xia! Indeed.”
空有一腔抱负 却 不能 入仕为官
“But ambition alone, without the chance to serve in office,”
救大厦只能是空谈 阁下果然信如其名
“makes saving our nation mere empty talk. You are indeed like your words.”
“What good is wanting to save the country when the court refuses to give me a chance?”
Traditional Confucian intellectuals saw entering official government service as the only legitimate pathway to fulfill their moral duty of ordering the state.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
possessing grand ambitions all in vain
A poetic expression used to articulate wasted potential or lack of opportunity despite burning desire to achieve.
enter the civil service and become an official
A formal historical collocation referring to passing imperial exams or securing an appointment to join the bureaucracy.
