banal

adj.

1. 平庸的；平淡乏味的；无关紧要的
   very ordinary and containing nothing that is interesting or important

1. ADJ-GRADED 平庸的；平淡无奇的
   If you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
   1. The text is banal...
      课文索然无味。
   2. Bland, banal music tinkled discreetly from hidden loudspeakers.
      隐藏的喇叭里幽幽地传出平淡乏味的音乐。
   3. You can refer to banal things as the banal .
      平庸的事物；平淡无奇的东西
   4. The allegations ranged from the banal to the bizarre.
      从平淡无奇到离奇百怪的各种说法都有。

1. The text is banal
   课文索然无味。
2. Bland, banal music tinkled discreetly from hidden loudspeakers.
   隐藏的喇叭里幽幽地传出平淡乏味的音乐。
3. The script is utterly banal. It is incredible that human minds can put such muck on to paper.
   这个剧本是十足的平庸之作，难以想象有人会写出这样的垃圾。
4. The lyrics are banal and the rhymes clumsy.
   歌词平淡老套，押韵生硬蹩脚。
5. His frequent use of cliches made his essay seem banal.
   由于他反复使用这些陈腐的题材，所以他的文章味同嚼蜡。
6. This sounds pretty banal but you'd be surprised how often people fail to heed this standard advice.
   这听起来很老套，但你会吃惊地发现人们是多麽容易忽视这条放之四海而兼准的好建议。
7. Silicon Valley companies sit on a trove of data about our most banal daily pursuits.
   硅谷企业掌握了大量关于我们最平凡日常事务的数据。
8. Most financial-planning advice, like most New Year's resolutions, is too complex or too banal.
   大多数财务规划建议就像大多数新年许愿一样，不是太复杂就是太平庸。
9. To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.
   陈腐的陈腐的或者平凡的；
10. With children in tow I was planning a more wholesome, though equally as banal, existence.
    因为有孩子跟着，我计划过一种更有益健康，但同样平淡无奇的生活。
11. When you explain poetry, it becomes banal.
    当你解释诗歌的时候，它就变得很平庸。
12. And rose above banal social and moral conventions to construct an authentic life.
    并超越陈腐的社会道德传统，而过着自己真正的生活。
13. Put like this it sounds banal, though actually it's heresy.
    听起来这好像是老一套，但实际上，这是一种异端学说。
14. The latest effort is also banal and embarrassing but this time I am reproducing it below.
    最近这次努力也同样平淡无奇且让人难为情，但这一次，我把它复制在下面。
15. This managed to be both butch and banal; to quote glibly from a Tom Hanks movie when you have made the savings of your investors shrink was insultingly crass.
    这句话既成功表现出了粗俗的男子气，又显得陈词滥调；你已使投资者的储蓄缩水了，还狡猾地引用汤姆•汉克斯（TomHanks）电影中的话，这样做既无礼又粗鲁。
16. He just sat there making banal remarks all evening.
    他整晚都坐在那儿说些无聊的话。
17. His banal observations on the game.
    他对这场比赛的乏味评论。
18. He preluded with some banal remarks.
    他讲了一些老套话作为开场白。
19. This is banal. But what is obvious is almost always hardest.
    这很老套，但显而易见的东西几乎总是最难做到的。
20. At that age, I had little wisdom and what some would call a fairly banal Irish Catholic upbringing: my father was a gifted horseman, a raging alcoholic, and a crisis-fomenting tyrant.
    在那个年龄，我有一点智慧和可以被称为一个平凡的爱尔兰天主教徒的抚养：我的父亲是一个天才的骑师，一个疯狂的酗酒者和一个助长危机的暴君。
21. This constant sunshine is so banal.
    不断的阳光显得如此乏味。
22. He made banal comments about the weather.
    他关于天气的评论纯系陈词滥调。
23. Managers have to show why these and other apparently banal tasks matter.
    管理者必须要说明，为什么这些及其它显然很平凡的工作很重要。
24. His lunatic counterfactual art is more appealing than the banal awfulness of the Reliable Sources.
    他的疯癫的反现实的艺术比从可靠的来源得来的平凡的有威严的消息更能引起我们的兴趣。
25. The campus is very flat and the existing classroom building is an out of scale and banal volume.
    小学校园的场地是非常平坦乏味的，教室楼更是一个尺度失常，毫无新意的体量。
26. Even with a banal knee-length hem, these have attitude.
    即便是搭配沉闷的及膝裙，这些鞋子也能彰显你的个性。
27. I couldn't think of anything to say that wouldn't sound banal.
    我想不出任何听上去不是陈词滥调的话可说。
28. You could say safety is not banal, but then it is not really a value at all.
    你可能会说，安全并不是乏善可陈的，但安全也根本不算是一种价值观。
29. I have various banal symptoms which you can see for yourself.
    我的一些琐碎普通的症状，你自己可以看出。

adj

1. repeated too often
   1. bromidic sermons
   2. his remarks were trite and commonplace
   3. hackneyed phrases
   4. a stock answer
   5. repeating threadbare jokes
   6. parroting some timeworn axiom
   7. the trite metaphor `hard as nails'

   Synonym:    commonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstock(a)threadbaretimeworntiredtritewell-worn