To have great talent but be unlucky; to possess outstanding abilities but lack the opportunity to display them due to misfortune; talented but ill-fated.
他学识渊博，却屡次错过施展抱负的机会，真是才高运蹇啊。
He is highly knowledgeable, yet he has repeatedly missed opportunities to fulfill his ambitions; truly a case of high talent and ill fate.
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