banal

英 [bəˈnɑːl]

美 [bəˈnɑːl]

adj.  平庸的; 平淡乏味的; 无关紧要的

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Collins.1 / BNC.15021 / COCA.16209

牛津词典

adj.

• 平庸的；平淡乏味的；无关紧要的
  very ordinary and containing nothing that is interesting or important

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 平庸的；平淡无奇的
  If you describe something asbanal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
  1. The text is banal...
     课文索然无味。
  2. Bland, banal music tinkled discreetly from hidden loudspeakers.
     隐藏的喇叭里幽幽地传出平淡乏味的音乐。
  3. You can refer to banal things asthe banal.
     平庸的事物；平淡无奇的东西
  4. The allegations ranged from the banal to the bizarre.
     从平淡无奇到离奇百怪的各种说法都有。

英英释义

adj

• repeated too often
  1. bromidic sermons
  2. his remarks were trite and commonplace
  3. hackneyed phrases
  4. a stock answer
  5. repeating threadbare jokes
  6. parroting some timeworn axiom
  7. the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
  Synonym:commonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstock(a)threadbaretimeworntiredtritewell-worn

双语例句

• The script is utterly banal. It is incredible that human minds can put such muck on to paper.
  这个剧本是十足的平庸之作，难以想象有人会写出这样的垃圾。
• The text is banal
  课文索然无味。
• At that age, I had little wisdom and what some would call a fairly banal Irish Catholic upbringing: my father was a gifted horseman, a raging alcoholic, and a crisis-fomenting tyrant.
  在那个年龄，我有一点智慧和可以被称为一个平凡的爱尔兰天主教徒的抚养：我的父亲是一个天才的骑师，一个疯狂的酗酒者和一个助长危机的暴君。
• The latest effort is also banal and embarrassing but this time I am reproducing it below.
  最近这次努力也同样平淡无奇且让人难为情，但这一次，我把它复制在下面。
• His frequent use of cliches made his essay seem banal.
  由于他反复使用这些陈腐的题材，所以他的文章味同嚼蜡。
• He preluded with some banal remarks.
  他讲了一些老套话作为开场白。
• This managed to be both butch and banal; to quote glibly from a Tom Hanks movie when you have made the savings of your investors shrink was insultingly crass.
  这句话既成功表现出了粗俗的男子气，又显得陈词滥调；你已使投资者的储蓄缩水了，还狡猾地引用汤姆•汉克斯（TomHanks）电影中的话，这样做既无礼又粗鲁。
• Most financial-planning advice, like most New Year's resolutions, is too complex or too banal.
  大多数财务规划建议就像大多数新年许愿一样，不是太复杂就是太平庸。
• The campus is very flat and the existing classroom building is an out of scale and banal volume.
  小学校园的场地是非常平坦乏味的，教室楼更是一个尺度失常，毫无新意的体量。
• I have various banal symptoms which you can see for yourself.
  我的一些琐碎普通的症状，你自己可以看出。