In the English translation of Cixin Liu's *The Three-Body Problem* by Ken Liu there is the sentence in chapter sixteen, *The Three Body Problem*, that reads:

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> The longer I worked, the worse my career.
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Which to me feels like an incomplete sentence: the worse my career [\_\_ what? \_\_]? Perhaps it could be helped with a `became` -or- a `got`? I went back to look at the original sentence which just says:

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> 越混越次
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It's an acceptable translation, but sounds very chinglish-y.

Is this a proper sentence?