If you hope to gain promotion you will have to pull your socks up.

如果你想得到提拔,你必须加紧努力.

His ability to gain promotion from three different emperors, including Otto III who made him pope, shows that he was adept at the courtly arts.

他取得提升的能力来是三个不同的皇帝，其中包括任命他为教皇的奥托三世，由此可以表明，他擅长于在宫廷艺术。