英语释义

• repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;

  "bromidic sermons"

  "his remarks were trite and commonplace"

  "hackneyed phrases"

  "a stock answer"

  "repeating threadbare jokes"

  "parroting some timeworn axiom"

  "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

• obvious and dull;

  "trivial conversation"

  "commonplace prose"

片语

trite陈腐的；平庸的；老一套的

bromidic陈腐的；无聊的；平庸的

英汉例句

• while our failure to adjust to the american dream may sound clichéd, our desire to move eastwards was far from the banal interest in discovering our roots.

  我们未能成功实现美国梦的故事可能早已是陈词滥调，然而我们向东迁移寻根的欲望却绝不平庸。

• all of this is true, but hardly helpful now that the city faces a more banal problem: not enough money.

  所有的这一切都是真的，但是对现在洛杉矶面临着一个很平凡的问题：没有足够的钱，几乎没有帮助。

• nonetheless, his testimony – with its credibly banal account of life on board the arctic sea – blows a hole in the official version of events.

  然而，他的陈述——详实可靠地描述了「北冰洋」号船上的普通生活——却给官方的版本捅了娄子。

• entitled william eggleston「s guide, it was the first show of colour photography at moma, a decision that incensed the critics almost as much as the supposedly banal and vulgar subject matter.

  这次名为「威廉·埃格斯顿指南」的展览，是纽约现代艺术博物馆的第一场彩色摄影展。 展示彩色作品，激怒批评家的程度，几乎不下于这些作品所谓平庸和粗俗的题材。

• at times he vies with the leaders of the great sect of the platitudinarians, and he can be as banal as he is brilliant.

  有时他会与platitudinarians大教派的领袖辩战，他光辉照人的同时又可以是平庸的。

• it’s a banal example, but a good one i think about to remind myself that even if i lose my most precious teddy bear in the world, it’s just a thing.

  这个例子是老生常谈了，但是它总能恰如其分地提醒我，甚至在我把我视若稀世珍宝的泰迪熊丢了的时候，我还能淡定地对自己说，这其实就是一件东西罢了。

• this sounds pretty banal but you」d be surprised how often people fail to heed this standard advice.

  这听起来很老套，但你会吃惊地发现人们是多么容易忽视这条放之四海而兼準的好建议。

• but despite some lapses into trendy jargon, caritas in veritate (charity in truth), a 144-page encyclical issued by pope benedict xvi on july 7th, is certainly not a banal or trivial document.

  尽管有些流于时髦行话的纰漏，这份由教皇本笃十六世于7月7日发表的144页的教皇通谕《真理中的善行》，显然不是平庸或无关轻重之作。

• a banal landscape of ugly new towers flanks both sides.

  马路两遍的是平凡丑陋的新摩天大楼的景象。

• he is lazy; he is thoughtless; his taste in restraints is banal and his housekeeping habits a horror.

  他懒惰、盲目、他在餐厅里的口味平庸、他做家务的习惯叫人恐怖。

• a series of euro-posters (some about tricky subjects like energy, others about more banal things such as product packaging) have popped up here and there.

  一系列欧盟海报随处可见，有的关于麻烦的问题比如能源，有的则是老生常谈，比如产品包装。

• i find that most educational blogs are either academic blogs full of banal research findings and written in teacherese, or else they are cathartic blogs full of rants and complaints.

  我发现大多数教育博客，不是充斥着陈腐的研究发现， 就是倾泻抱怨。

• those familiar only with the banal 20th-century examples made for the tourist trade are in for a happy surprise.

  那些对20世纪事件很熟悉的人来说，这些玩意仅仅是旅行者商贸上的快乐惊喜。

• along with currywurst and nude saunas, bookstores have long been such a banal fact of life here, as they are across germany, that only an outsider might bother to think their number was remarkable.

  和咖喱香肠以及裸体的桑拿浴一样，书店早已成为这里生活中很平常的事情，当人们穿越德国的时候，只有外地人会迷惑，这里为什么会由这么多的书店。

• today, some dismiss sofas as banal and overused, while the decorator nate berkus says that every living room should be built around the perfect sofa.

  今天，虽然装修设计师nateberkus说过每一个客厅的装修都应该围绕着完美的沙发展开，但有些摒弃沙发的平庸设计却很泛滥。

• if our aim is to over-achieve, we need to avoid the same banal influences and think impossibly.

  假使我们的目标是超越前人的功绩，就要拒绝平庸而不去想什么不可能。

• but something unexpected occurred. once people started imagining the future, even the most banal life events seemed to take a dramatic turn for the better.

  没想到的事发生了：一旦人们开始想像未来，甚至最平凡的生活事件都似乎向好的方向发生戏剧性的改变。

相似词

commonplace平凡的，普通的；平庸的，陈腐的