platitude
英 [ˈplætɪtjuːd]
美 [ˈplætɪtuːd]
n. 陈词滥调; 老生常谈
复数:platitudes
BNC.19933 / COCA.20203
牛津词典
noun
- 陈词滥调;老生常谈
a comment or statement that has been made very often before and is therefore not interesting
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 陈词滥调;套话
Aplatitudeis a statement which is considered meaningless and boring because it has been made many times before in similar situations.- Why couldn't he say something original instead of spouting the same old platitudes?
他为什么就不能讲些有新意的话,而不是喋喋不休地说些老生常谈呢? - ...a stream of platitudes, outlining many problems but offering few solutions.
概述了很多问题、但几乎没有提出解决办法的一串陈词滥调
- Why couldn't he say something original instead of spouting the same old platitudes?
英英释义
noun
- a trite or obvious remark
双语例句
- Why couldn't he say something original instead of spouting the same old platitudes?
他为什么就不能讲些有新意的话,而不是喋喋不休地说些老生常谈呢? - With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
讽刺作品用自然的嘲讽态度重新设置了观点,将熟悉的事物自相矛盾地置在一起。 - Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude& but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance.
当然用一句英语句子来阐述,只是些陈词滥调&但是事实上,在成年人存在的日常鸿沟中,陈词滥调可能很重要,它可以决定你的生死。 - The talk is no more than a platitude.
这番话无非是老生常谈。 - Maternal love is the most common and yet the greatest affection one can experience in the world. It defines sublimity with platitude. Her commitment to a great cause degenerate from a crusade Into an obsession
母爱是世界上最普通又最伟大的情感,它会使平凡变得崇高。她致力於一伟大事业,但其崇高的奋斗精神已变质成为偏执的狂热 - Tony Blair and Bill Clinton proclaimed a third way, but this degenerated into platitude and vacuity.
托尼·布莱尔(TonyBlair)和比尔·克林顿(billclinton)曾宣称第三条道路,但这一说辞已蜕变成陈词滥调和空谈。 - That's no platitude; the boundary between the two is surprisingly clear.
这并非陈词滥调;这两者之间的界限极其清晰。 - How to improve college English teaching is a platitude but the significance of doing so can't be neglected.
如何提高高校外语教学质量可谓老生常谈。然而意义却不容忽视。 - This is really a platitude and different people have different views question.
这实在是「老生常谈」而且「见仁见智」的问题。 - When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.
当亚里士多德说,人类天生是政治动物,他的主张,不只是老生常谈,或是陈腔滥调。