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Chinese translation for "大材小用"

 
put fine timber to petty use; a large material for petty use; cut blocks with razor; employ a steamengine to crack a nut; great genius in little employment; great talent employed in a small capacity;men of great talents employed in a small sphere; not equal to one's abilities; shoot sparrows with artillery; talented people for trivial tasks; waste one's talent on a petty job

Related Translations:
大炮打麻雀大材小用:  break a fly on the wheel
Example Sentences:
1. "i'm afraid it's asking a great deal from a gentleman who knows latin and greek. "
“恐怕让一位懂得拉丁文和希腊文的绅士做这种事有点大材小用了。”
2.Some sayhe ' s too artistic forthejob
有人说他如此行动,或许大材小用
3.He refused the job , saying it would be ( a ) prostitution of his talents
他拒不做那工作,说那是大材小用
4.Working here is really wasting
在这儿工作实在是大材小用
5.Printing business cards on a thirty - inch press is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
在30英寸印刷机上印刷名片简直是大材小用,得不偿失。
6." i ' m afraid it ' s asking a great deal from a gentleman who knows latin and greek .
“恐怕让一位懂得拉丁文和希腊文的绅士做这种事有点大材小用了。 ”
7.Expensive groupware is simply overkill when all you want is to decide whose turn it is to do the dishes
要决定轮到谁来涮碗,使用昂贵的群件简直是大材小用
8.Has a wealth of string parsing utilities , and data binding is a bit of overkill in these cases
) - -提供了丰富的字符串解析工具,数据绑定在这里有点大材小用
9.Secondly , they are complicated to configure and use in a smaller network , for example , a company intranet
对于一个小型的邮件服务器(如公司内部使用的) ,现今的过滤手段又显得配置复杂,大材小用
10.We began our journey at the beginning of the year with a hard look at enterprise javabean components , asking when it truly makes sense to use them and when they are overkill
我们在年初通过粗略研究enterprise javabean组件来开始我们的旅程,并提到了何时使用这些组件才真正有意义,以及何时这些组件才会变得大材小用的问题。
Similar Words:
"大部小肠切除" Chinese translation, "大部小肠综合症" Chinese translation, "大部右叶切除术" Chinese translation, "大部左叶切除术" Chinese translation, "大材" Chinese translation, "大才" Chinese translation, "大才必有大用" Chinese translation, "大才大用" Chinese translation, "大才小用见大材小用大材" Chinese translation, "大财" Chinese translation