你跟了我有四五年了吧
“You've been working for me for four or five years, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小侯啊
“Hou.”
你 跟了我 有四五年了 吧
“You've been working for me for four or five years, right?”
“Yes. You're a college student, and I thought you were careful,”
“You know how I operate and I consider you one of my core team members.”
Using '跟' (to follow) reflects a traditional master-apprentice mindset in Chinese workplace culture, emphasizing loyalty and personal mentorship over mere contractual employment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
worked with/under me
Used in Chinese professional contexts to describe serving under a mentor or superior leader.
four or five years
An approximate duration indicating a significant amount of shared professional experience.
Marks the completion and ongoing duration of the four-to-five-year period.
Softens the rhetorical question and invites confirmation from the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's been with me for decades.”
“they've been with me for so many years.”
“you keep following me around— what exactly do you want to say to me?”
“For 5 whole years, I called you brother.”
“count as spending another four or five years together.”
“You said you've been following me all day.”