trite

英 [traɪt]

美 [traɪt]

adj.  老生常谈的; 陈腐的; 老一套的

最高级：tritest　

GRE

BNC.19962 / COCA.20823

牛津词典

adj.

• 老生常谈的；陈腐的；老一套的
  dull and boring because it has been expressed so many times before; not original

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 陈腐的;老一套的
  If you say that something such as an idea, remark, or story istrite, you mean that it is dull and boring because it has been said or told too many times.
  1. The movie is teeming with obvious and trite ideas...
     这部电影充斥着平铺直叙的陈腐观点。
  2. The simple concepts he had been taught now sounded trite and naive.
     他曾经被教导的简单观念如今听起来陈腐而幼稚。

英英释义

adj

• repeated too often
  1. bromidic sermons
  2. his remarks were trite and commonplace
  3. hackneyed phrases
  4. a stock answer
  5. repeating threadbare jokes
  6. parroting some timeworn axiom
  7. the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
  Synonym:banalcommonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstock(a)threadbaretimeworntiredwell-worn

双语例句

• Repeated too often; trite or hackneyed.
  陈腐的重复太多的；陈词或滥调的。
• The story is described as beautifully written but concerned with the trite theme of adolescent loneliness.
  人们认为这本小说写得很美，但内容却是有关青春寂怨的这个老一套的主题。
• It sounds so trite, so Norman Vincent Peale, but my goodness this works.
  这听起来是如此陈腐，和诺曼。
• This observation would seem so trite as to need no further explanation.
  这一点似乎是老生常谈，无需赘述。
• I'm constantly amazed by the difficulty of following this principle, which seems the most obvious, the most trite, the most stale.
  遵守这一原则具有的困难性会让我时不时地感到惊讶。这条原则却似乎看上再明显、平淡、陈旧不过了。
• It can be very hard to tell someone you love them without sounding trite.
  很难对一个人说你爱他而话语听上去又不觉得俗气。
• I know it's trite to say it, but it's so easy to get off the path to a good plan if you don't have the goals clearly defined up front.
  我知道这样说有点老套，但如果您还没有清晰地定义前方的目标，那么可以非常轻松地开辟出通往一项良好计划的道路。
• Not all viral content is trite and shallow.
  不是所有病毒式内容都陈腐而肤浅。
• A.As many people have guessed, the word "boyfriend" seems sort of trite and schoolyard-ish in the light of how Bella feels about Edward.
  答：正如很多朋友认为，比照贝拉内心对爱德华的真正感觉，“男朋友”这个词似乎有点老土和过于学生气了。
• Well, Americans do often use this trite greeting, and they generally expect nothing but the standard answer.
  其实美国人的确常用这老套的问候方式，而他们所期待的，也只是一般的标准回答。