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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• Scale is a platitude problem of geomorphology.
  尺度是一个老生常谈的地学问题。
• 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。