This may seem cliched, but it is unarguably true. 也许看似有些老到,但却是真是的。
Humphys'book laments the growth of "cliched, dumbed-down, inflated and bogus management-speak" which he says now passes for English. 汉弗莱斯的这本书表达了作者对“陈腐愚蠢、夸张虚伪的官腔语言”滋生的悲叹,而这种语言现在(居然)被称为英语。
TV series Scandal sounds like, and to some extent is, another cliched political drama about the bloody power struggles that go on behind the walls of the US Capitol and White House. 美剧《丑闻》听上去像是又一部讲述美国国会及白宫背后血雨腥风的老套政治剧,而从某种程度上来讲,也的确如此。
Even so, cinematographer-turned-director Liu Jie gives the characters and the cliched story a fresh feel on the screen, packing a tight hour-and-a-half full of laughter and tears. 即便如此,在拍而优则导的刘杰手中,片中人物以及老套的剧情竟呈现出令人耳目一新之感。在一个半小时的电影中,故事情节相当紧凑,充满欢笑和泪水。
Another thought the white woman was very cliched. 另一个觉得白种女人乏善可陈。
I always ask people to forget any cliched ideas about Hindi cinema when it comes to the kind of music I make. 在谈到我创作的那种音乐时,我总是要求人们忘掉那些关于印度电影的陈腐看法。
And it's given here this sort of cliched, noble origin with the Native American, the Plains Indian. 在这儿讲有些陈词滥调的,美洲原住民草原印第安人的高尚开端。
What she says is always dreadfully cliched. 她说的话总是有许多陈词滥调。
At the sight of Napoleon, the young Frenchman cliched his heels together. 一见到拿破仑,年轻的法国士兵两只脚跟喀嚓一声并拢,立正敬礼。
This may sound cliched, but it is a fact of life! 这虽为老生常谈,却如此确切!
I don't think it's cute. I think it is tacky, cliched, overused, boring, lame and crap. 我认为这姿势非但不可爱,还很俗气、很刻板、很过时、很无趣、很差劲、很垃圾。
It can only be a cliched concept deeply entrenched in language and shared by all human beings. 它有可能只是一个人类共有的深植于语言中的陈旧概念。