楚材晉用chǔ cái jìn yònga great person is given important post by another country; talented people of one country are employed by other countries
? 我化了錢(qián)，教出了人，卻叫外國(guó)人去用，這才是～呢。(吳趼人《二十年目睹之怪現(xiàn)狀》223) What’s the sense of spending money on the training of our men for the service of foreigners? This is a typical case of our talented people being employed by other countries. 楚材晉用chǔ cài jìn yònɡ楚國(guó)的人才晉國(guó)使用。比喻本國(guó)的人才被別國(guó)使用。employ talented people of other nations, the brain drain |