platitude

英 [ˈplætɪtjuːd]

美 [ˈplætɪtuːd]

n.  陈词滥调; 老生常谈

复数：platitudes　

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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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The changs of teaching environment and major are in conflict with the platitude pattern of university teaching.
  本文首先从教学环境、教学主体的变化与大学陈旧的教学模式的矛盾中，得出了结论：大学数学教学必须走教学改革的道路；
• The topic of translation criteria may be thought of as platitude, but such assumption is rather misleading.
  翻译标准这个话题似乎已是老生常谈，其实不然。
• 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。
• 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。
• Scale is a platitude problem of geomorphology.
  尺度是一个老生常谈的地学问题。
• I am the champion of the platitude.
  我是这种老生常谈的冠军。