platitude

英 [ˈplætɪtjuːd]

美 [ˈplætɪtuːd]

n.  陈词滥调; 老生常谈

复数：platitudes　

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BNC.19933 / COCA.20203

牛津词典

noun

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

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 陈词滥调；套话
  Aplatitudeis 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

英英释义

noun

• a trite or obvious remark
  Synonym:clichebanalitycommonplacebromide

双语例句

• But this is just a reassuring platitude.
  但这不过是用来安慰人的陈词滥调。
• 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。
• 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
• Scale is a platitude problem of geomorphology.
  尺度是一个老生常谈的地学问题。
• This is not a platitude nor theorem, it is a truism.
  这不是陈词滥调，而是事实。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。