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小词详解 | trite
trite 英 [traɪt] 美 [traɪt]
If you had to identify the most important person in your organisation, there is an obvious answer, a trite-and-untrue answer and a wrong-but-useful answer.
如果要问你公司里谁最重要,会有一个显而易见的答案、一个老套且不真实的答案,和一个是错误但有用的答案。
——《经济学人》It's a poetic phrase that is almost too perfect, bordering on trite.
这是一个几乎过于完美、近乎陈腐的诗意短语。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] (指言论或想法)缺乏独创性或新鲜感的;因过度使用而变得乏味的
你的托辞实在不怎么新鲜。
Your alibi is pretty trite.这部电影充斥着平铺直叙的陈腐观点。
The movie is teeming with obvious and trite ideas.他曾经被教导的简单观念如今听起来陈腐而幼稚。
The simple concepts he had been taught now sounded trite and naive.
Don't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them on trite transient objects.
不要那么苦苦依恋肉体的关系,把你的坚毅和热诚留给一项适当的事业,不要将它浪费在平凡而短暂的事情上。
banal: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring cliched: showing a lack of originality; based on frequently repeated phrases or opinions hackneyed: (of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite