National Key Disciplines (disciplines recognized as important and supported by PRC central government, including medicine, science, chemistry, engineering, commerce and law)
(idiom) To have received little guidance from teachers or not to have been trained by a recognized master. It is often used as a humble self-description.
(idiom) An ordinary person becomes a hero recognized by the world. The expression praises the rise and exceptional merit of someone from the common people.
(idiom) A metaphor for an old man marrying a woman and deliberately not restraining her, hoping that she will become pregnant and thereby provide him with a son recognized in name and status.
(idiom) To make a fine horse pull a salt cart. It refers to using a talented person in an unsuitable way, or to a gifted person whose abilities are not recognized.
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