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

• 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？
• End your speech with an attitude, not a platitude.
  用一种有力的态度结束你的演讲，而不是用那些陈词滥调。
• 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 reduced the romance to platitude, and the third person in the drama to the appearance of a stick.
  这就使浪漫色彩大为减少，而使这幕戏剧中的第三者成为一个呆头呆脑的角色。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• But this is just a reassuring platitude.
  但这不过是用来安慰人的陈词滥调。
• I became a walking platitude, telling friends without a trace of irony to live every day as though it were their last.
  我成了行走着的话唠（活生生的唐僧？），我不带丝毫讽刺意味地告诉朋友们，要像它是人生最后一天一样过好每一天。
• When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.
  当亚里士多德说，人类天生是政治动物，他的主张，不只是老生常谈，或是陈腔滥调。