升官发财 meaning in English
win promotion and get rich; be successful in both politics and business; (be out for) power and money; be promoted in office and become rich; seek position and wealth; (to want)to be an official and have an easy life
Examples
- He had a haughty bearing , a look either steady and impenetrable or insolently piercing and inquisitorial . four successive revolutions had built and cemented the pedestal upon which his fortune was based . m . de villefort had the reputation of being the least curious and the least wearisome man in france
傲慢神气，死板的面孔，沉着冷漠或锐利探询的目光，即有这些使这个人巧妙地度过了接连而来的四次革命，在革命中建立和巩固了他升官发财的根基。