汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 不学无术
不学无术 (不學無術)
without learning or skills (idiom); ignorant and incompetent
学 knowledge / 术 skill / The original said that there is no way because of no knowledge / Now refers to lack of knowledge and ability
《汉书.霍光传赞》"然光不学亡术,暗于大理。"亡,通"无"。本谓霍光不能学古,故所行不合于道术◇用以泛指缺乏学问﹑本领。
bù/bú () xué () wú () shù/zhú
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

艺术的敌人就是不学无术

Thee enemy of art is unlearned.

努力学习,否则你会是个不学无术的人。

Study hard, or you'll be an uneducated man.

他是个纨绔子弟,从来都是不学无术的。

He is a dandy, he never studies anything.

戈培尔是个知识分子,看不起慕尼黑领导层不学无术的市侩庸人。

As an intellectual Goebbels looked down on the crude philistines of the leading group in Munich.