unable to profit from what one has read
It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ú D ú f ù sh ū, which means that people only know how to read without using knowledge. It comes from the biography of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru in historical records.
Idiom usage
I'd like to ask the king not to send me if I don't know how to change my mind. The 98th chapter of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty
The origin of Idioms
In the biography of Lin Xiangru in historical records: "kuituo can read his father's book, but he doesn't know how to change."
unable to profit from what one has read
be too late for regrets and lamentations - jiē huǐ wú jí
one 's sidelong glance has the moist gleam of the autumnal waves - qiū shuǐ yíng yíng
The unity of heaven and the people - tiān zhī lù mín
A soldier in accordance with the law - àn jiǎ qǐn bīng
Draw a picture of the land and commit a prison - huà dì zuò yù
cut off the long and compensate the short - zhé cháng bǔ duǎn