hackneyed
英 [ˈhæknid]
美 [ˈhæknid]
adj. 陈腐的
BNC.32700 / COCA.26346
牛津词典
adj.
- 陈腐的
used too often and therefore boring- a hackneyed phrase/subject
陈词滥调;老生常谈的话题
- a hackneyed phrase/subject
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED (语句、画面等)陈腐的,陈词滥调的
If you describe something such as a saying or an image ashackneyed, you think it is no longer likely to interest, amuse or affect people because it has been used, seen, or heard many times before.- Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
权力导致腐败,绝对权力导致绝对腐败。这虽是老生常谈,但却是真理。 - ...hackneyed postcard snaps of lochs and glens.
老掉牙的苏格兰湖泊峡谷风景照片
- Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
英英释义
adj
- repeated too often
- bromidic sermons
- his remarks were trite and commonplace
- hackneyed phrases
- a stock answer
- repeating threadbare jokes
- parroting some timeworn axiom
- the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
双语例句
- Research on Relationship between Hackneyed Heat Insulator Density and Coefficient of Heat Conductivity
常见保温材料密度与导热系数关系的研究 - This flourishing is a direct response to people's discontent with hackneyed and stereotyped modes of expression_r_r_r_r whose expressiveness has been worn away by centuries of overuse.
这种百花齐放的繁荣是对人们的某种不满所做出的反应,人们已不再满足于各种陈腐的、老一套的表达方式,因为它们的表现力由于几个世纪的反复使用而丧失殆尽。 - A newspaper should be lively and should avoid hackneyed stuff.
报纸要办得生动,切忌死板老套。 - Repeated too often; trite or hackneyed.
陈腐的重复太多的;陈词或滥调的。 - But when many people listen to philosophy, they often hear some hackneyed and stereotyped expressions and feel puzzled.
但当我们去聆听哲学时,听到的总是一些陈词滥调或不知所云而毫无智慧的感觉。 - A soap opera with a hackneyed plot;
情节老掉牙的肥皂剧; - And they yearn for meaningful tools to pass their values about living with great wealth to younger generations without a hackneyed, classroom-style approach.
此外,他们还迫切希望获得有意义的工具,而不必通过老套的说教式方法,将他们如何处理巨额财富的价值观传递给后代。 - He sometimes slips into rather dreadful puns and hackneyed language.
他有时会失口说出很刺耳的双关语和极陈腐的话来。 - A monastic should be detached, easy, open-minded and not hackneyed in temperament, and thus proved to be a true man.
出家人要流露出一种超然从容、豁达离俗的气质,才不愧为大丈夫相。 - One of the most important factor result in the slower developing speed of the rural economics of China is the hackneyed jam-up of agricultural products circulation.
我国农村地区经济发展较为缓慢的一个重要原因是农产品流通不畅。