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platitude

英 [ˈplætɪtjuːd]

美 [ˈplætɪtuːd]

n.  陈词滥调; 老生常谈

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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.
        1. 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?
        2. ...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

      英英释义

      noun

      双语例句

      • It's no more than a platitude.
        无非是老生常谈。
      • It reduced the romance to platitude, and the third person in the drama to the appearance of a stick.
        这就使浪漫色彩大为减少,而使这幕戏剧中的第三者成为一个呆头呆脑的角色。
      • 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。
      • 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
      • It used to be a platitude of Western and Marxist analysis of China that wrenching economic change would demand political reform.
        套用一句西方经济学家还有马克思主义者的陈词滥调来分析中国:剧烈的经济转变必将需求政治上的改革。
      • With reference to ordinary company governance, it has been a platitude for a long time; but the particularity of financial holding group, can never compared with that of ordinary company.
        关于一般公司的治理,已是老生常谈的问题,但金融控股集团的公司治理特殊性,却远非一般公司所能对比。
      • The problem appears to be a platitude in fact, but not many artists can answer it. Therefore, there appear the difference of the current artists and the diversity of the meaning.
        问题看似老生常谈,实际上并不是许多人能做到的,因为此,就分别出了当下的艺术家的差异和意义。
      • Scale is a platitude problem of geomorphology.
        尺度是一个老生常谈的地学问题。
      • This is not a platitude nor theorem, it is a truism.
        这不是陈词滥调,而是事实。
      • 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。