网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英语单词:

 

单词 大材小用
释义

大材小用dà cái xiǎo yòng

a waste of sb’s talent;an able man given a small job; employ a stream engine to crack a nut; great talent employed in small capacity; not do justice to sb’s talents; put fine timber to petty use; use talented people for trivial tasks;waste or misuse of materials or talents
❍ ~古所叹,管仲萧何实流亚。(陆游《送辛幼安殿撰造朝》) Even the ancients sighed when the talented people were used for petty tasks. |Actually Guan Zhong and Xiao He were inferior.

大材小用da cai xiao yong

large material put to small use—one’s talent wasted on a petty job

大材小用

to be underemployed;great talent employed in small capacity;waste or misuse of materials or talents;waste one's talent on a petty job;assign trivial tasks to talented people

大材小用dà cái xiǎo yònɡ

比喻使用不当,造成浪费。put fine timber to petty use, not do justice to sb.’s talents, a waste of sb.’s talent, cut blocks with a razor

随便看

 

英汉词典共收录311570条英汉翻译词条,基本覆盖所有常用英文单词的例句及中文翻译,是不可多得的英语学习材料。

 

Copyright © 2021-2024 Brocanteux.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/4/6 4:08:09