怎么 就兴你一个人 结交权贵啊
“What? Are you the only one allowed to socialize with the powerful?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我也要去敬酒
“I want to offer a toast too.”
怎么 就兴你一个人 结交 权贵 啊
“What? Are you the only one allowed to socialize with the powerful?”
这可是你自己要求的
“You asked for this.”
“Don't act like only you are allowed to climb the social ladder; I have every right to do it too.”
Toasting (敬酒) at banquets is a primary vehicle for cultivating advantageous connections with influential elites in Chinese social dynamics.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
curry favor with or associate with the rich and powerful
A formal idiom/collocation often carrying a slightly opportunistic or cynical connotation in social commentary.
is it only permitted that...
A northern colloquial rhetorical pattern expressing disbelief or indignant objection that only one person gets special treatment.
Heightens the rhetorical, confrontational edge of the rhetorical question.
