platitude

英 [ˈplætɪtjuːd]

美 [ˈplætɪtuːd]

n. 陈词滥调; 老生常谈

复数：platitudes　

TOEFL IELTS GRE

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

a trite or obvious remark
Synonym:clichebanalitycommonplacebromide

双语例句

But this is just a reassuring platitude.
但这不过是用来安慰人的陈词滥调。
This is not a platitude nor theorem, it is a truism.
这不是陈词滥调，而是事实。
Scale is a platitude problem of geomorphology.
尺度是一个老生常谈的地学问题。
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。
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude& but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance.
当然用一句英语句子来阐述，只是些陈词滥调&但是事实上，在成年人存在的日常鸿沟中，陈词滥调可能很重要，它可以决定你的生死。
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。
The talk is no more than a platitude.
这番话无非是老生常谈。
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。
With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
讽刺作品用自然的嘲讽态度重新设置了观点，将熟悉的事物自相矛盾地置在一起。
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。