“大材小用”，汉语成语，意思是把大的材料用于小的用处（put fine timber to petty use），比喻人才使用不当，浪费人才，可以翻译为“make little use of a great talent, waste a talent on trivial job，put something big to small use”。
- 让你当打字员是大材小用。
The job of a typist is unworthy of your talents. - 很多人觉得自己在工作上被迫大材小用。
Many find themselves having to take jobs far beneath them. - 举例来说，如果大学毕业生认为自己从事的工作只需要高中文凭，他们就会认为自己是大材小用了。
For example, university graduates would count themselves overqualified if they were doing work they believed called for nothing more than A-levels.
