hackneyed

英 [ˈhæknid]

美 [ˈhæknid]

adj.  陈腐的

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BNC.32700 / COCA.26346

牛津词典

adj.

• 陈腐的
  used too often and therefore boring
  1. a hackneyed phrase/subject
     陈词滥调；老生常谈的话题

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （语句、画面等）陈腐的，陈词滥调的
  If you describe something such as a saying or an image ashackneyed, you think it is no longer likely to interest, amuse or affect people because it has been used, seen, or heard many times before.
  1. Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
     权力导致腐败，绝对权力导致绝对腐败。这虽是老生常谈，但却是真理。
  2. ...hackneyed postcard snaps of lochs and glens.
     老掉牙的苏格兰湖泊峡谷风景照片

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:banalcommonplaceold-hatshopwornstock(a)threadbaretimeworntiredtritewell-worn

双语例句

• Or maybe we will criticize it for being boring or hackneyed.
  我们或许会批评它，因为它乏味，或者因为它陈腐。
• Repeated too often; trite or hackneyed.
  陈腐的重复太多的；陈词或滥调的。
• I hate those hackneyed information, more hate those on the spur of the moment to play "thanksgiving".
  我讨厌那些陈词烂调的信息，更讨厌那些一时兴起玩“感恩”的人。
• In the last 30 years, we have essentially changed the comprehension about tic disorders. Especially since the 1990s, tic disorders has been widely considered a hackneyed phenomena. It is caused by genetic obstacle and bad environmental factors.
  近30余年来，我们对抽动障碍的认识发生了本质的改变，特别是90年代以来，医学界普遍认为抽动障碍非常多见，是一种由遗传缺陷和不良环境因素所致的神经精神发育障碍。
• Hackneyed words and expressions should be avoided in writing.
  写文章务去陈言。
• I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.
  我见过一个吉卜赛流浪者，她用陈腐的方法操弄着手相术，告诉我她们那些人往往会怎样给人算命。
• A newspaper should be lively and should avoid hackneyed stuff.
  报纸要办得生动，切忌死板老套。
• In particular he criticizes political leaders for being sucked into using meaningless phrases and hackneyed mantras to disguise policies or protect themselves from accountability.
  他还特别批评了政府领导人们热衷于使用无意义词语和陈腐高调来伪饰政策或推脱责任的行为。
• A soap opera with a hackneyed plot;
  情节老掉牙的肥皂剧；
• The traditional, but somewhat hackneyed approach is to turn the weakenss into strength.
  最传统也最老套的方法是转弱为强。