please both superiors and inferiors ? 便是本家大人，是老爺最相好的，他不多幾年，已巴到極頂?shù)姆謨海仓粸樽R(shí)時(shí)達(dá)務(wù)，能夠～罷了。(《紅樓夢(mèng)》 1290) But your close friend and kinsman has climbed to the top in just a few years,simply because he has the good sense to please both his superiors and his inferiors.