platitude

noun

1. 陈词滥调；老生常谈
   a comment or statement that has been made very often before and is therefore not interesting

1. N-COUNT 陈词滥调；套话
   A platitude is 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

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. It's no more than a platitude.
   无非是老生常谈。
3. The talk is no more than a platitude.
   这番话无非是老生常谈。
4. That's no platitude; the boundary between the two is surprisingly clear.
   这并非陈词滥调；这两者之间的界限极其清晰。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. Tony Blair and Bill Clinton proclaimed a third way, but this degenerated into platitude and vacuity.
   托尼·布莱尔（TonyBlair）和比尔·克林顿（billclinton）曾宣称第三条道路，但这一说辞已蜕变成陈词滥调和空谈。
8. But this is just a reassuring platitude.
   但这不过是用来安慰人的陈词滥调。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. Maternal love is the most common and yet the greatest affection one can experience in the world. It defines sublimity with platitude. Her commitment to a great cause degenerate from a crusade Into an obsession
    母爱是世界上最普通又最伟大的情感，它会使平凡变得崇高。她致力於一伟大事业，但其崇高的奋斗精神已变质成为偏执的狂热
12. 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。
13. This is not a platitude nor theorem, it is a truism.
    这不是陈词滥调，而是事实。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. I am the champion of the platitude.
    我是这种老生常谈的冠军。
17. The problem appears to be a platitude in fact, but not many artists can answer it. Therefore, there appear the difference of the current artists and the diversity of the meaning.
    问题看似老生常谈，实际上并不是许多人能做到的，因为此，就分别出了当下的艺术家的差异和意义。
18. 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。
19. 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
20. Scale is a platitude problem of geomorphology.
    尺度是一个老生常谈的地学问题。
21. How to improve college English teaching is a platitude but the significance of doing so can't be neglected.
    如何提高高校外语教学质量可谓老生常谈。然而意义却不容忽视。
22. 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。
23. 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；
24. With reference to ordinary company governance, it has been a platitude for a long time; but the particularity of financial holding group, can never compared with that of ordinary company.
    关于一般公司的治理，已是老生常谈的问题，但金融控股集团的公司治理特殊性，却远非一般公司所能对比。
25. Since the Opium War in the mid-nineteenth century which was in the era of big upheavals, the commonplace platitude pedestrian banal Qing Dynasty had been caught in the unprecedented crisis.
    腐朽的清王朝，在十九世纪中期鸦片战争以来的时代大变局中，遭遇到了数千年来前所未见的危机。

noun

1. a trite or obvious remark

   Synonym:    clichebanalitycommonplacebromide