埋没

• Pinyin: mái mò
• Desglose de hanzi: 埋 = 土 (earth) + 里 (inside); 没 = 水 (water) + 殳 (tool/strike) — to sink and submerge

Significado

Quedar enterrado en el olvido; pasar desapercibido; desperdiciar (talento).

In figurative use, 埋没 carries a sense of injustice — a talented person being overlooked, a good idea unrecognised, or an achievement forgotten. Common in career development, historical assessment, and social criticism.

Ejemplos

1. 大量优秀人才因体制原因被埋没，未能在最适合自己的岗位上发挥出应有的价值。
2. 这批历史档案若不加以整理和数字化，迟早会因年久失修而彻底被埋没于历史尘埃之中。
3. 她不甘心让自己的才华就此埋没，毅然辞去稳定的工作，转而追求梦想中的艺术事业。

Guía de uso

Contexto: talent management, history, social criticism, career

Tono: critical

Correcto

• 真正的教育体系应当善于发掘每位学生的独特潜能，而不是以统一标准埋没那些不符合主流评价体系的非凡才华。(A truly good education system should excel at uncovering each student's unique potential, rather than using uniform standards to bury talents that do not conform to mainstream evaluation criteria.)
• 历史上不乏才华长期被埋没的艺术家，他们的价值往往要到身后才得到社会的广泛认可。(History is full of artists whose talents were long overlooked; their value was often only widely recognised by society after their deaths.)

Incorrecto

• 用埋没描述物理掩埋而不加语境说明 — while 埋没 can be used literally (buried under sand or rubble), its most powerful usage is figurative (talent or contributions being overlooked); purely literal use in literary contexts may confuse readers

Origen e historia

埋 (to bury) + 没 (to submerge/disappear) — to be buried and lost from sight

Contexto cultural

Generación: All ages

Contexto social: Universal