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
- Hackneyed words and expressions should be avoided in writing.
写文章务去陈言。 - A soap opera with a hackneyed plot;
情节老掉牙的肥皂剧; - Or maybe we will criticize it for being boring or hackneyed.
我们或许会批评它,因为它乏味,或者因为它陈腐。 - In particular he criticizes political leaders for being sucked into using meaningless phrases and hackneyed mantras to disguise policies or protect themselves from accountability.
他还特别批评了政府领导人们热衷于使用无意义词语和陈腐高调来伪饰政策或推脱责任的行为。 - Repeated too often; trite or hackneyed.
陈腐的重复太多的;陈词或滥调的。 - I hate those hackneyed information, more hate those on the spur of the moment to play "thanksgiving".
我讨厌那些陈词烂调的信息,更讨厌那些一时兴起玩“感恩”的人。 - 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。 - Too often used or too well known to be effective; hackneyed.
因经常使用或尽人皆知而无效力的;陈腐的。 - In them, transverse crack, lengthways crack and other linear crack are hackneyed.
裂缝是高速公路早期病害的主要形式之一,其中以横向裂缝、纵向裂缝等线状裂缝最为常见。 - I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.
我见过一个吉卜赛流浪者,她用陈腐的方法操弄着手相术,告诉我她们那些人往往会怎样给人算命。