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
- Reviewing Platitude& Correctness of Structure and its Significance in Contemporary Architectural Critique
重温陈词滥调&谈结构正确性及其在当代建筑评论中的意义 - I am the champion of the platitude.
我是这种老生常谈的冠军。 - This is not a platitude nor theorem, it is a truism.
这不是陈词滥调，而是事实。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - End your speech with an attitude, not a platitude.
用一种有力的态度结束你的演讲，而不是用那些陈词滥调。 - 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。 - 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's no more than a platitude.
无非是老生常谈。