be engaged in an occupation not related to one 's training(yòng fēi suǒ xué)

be engaged in an occupation not related to one 's training

Chinese idioms, Pinyin is y ò NGF ē ISU ǒ Xu é, which means that what is used is not what is learned. It refers to the inconsistency between learning and using. It comes from the biography of Ye Boju in the history of Ming Dynasty.

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Explanation: what is used is not what is learned. It refers to the inconsistency between learning and using.

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[source]: the biography of Ye Boju in the history of the Ming Dynasty: "when I went to the capital, I chose the officials by their appearance. What I learned was not what I used, and what I used was not what I learned." But the three brothers, because they didn't use what they learned, didn't look up to them. The fourteenth chapter of a brief history of civilization by Li Baojia in Qing Dynasty

Discrimination of words

Phonetic code: yfsx antonym: learn to apply usage: used as predicate, object and attribute; used in written language

Chinese PinYin : yòng fēi suǒ xué