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
- 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。 - 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。 - It's no more than a platitude.
无非是老生常谈。 - 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。 - I am the champion of the platitude.
我是这种老生常谈的冠军。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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? - I became a walking platitude, telling friends without a trace of irony to live every day as though it were their last.
我成了行走着的话唠(活生生的唐僧?),我不带丝毫讽刺意味地告诉朋友们,要像它是人生最后一天一样过好每一天。
