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

• For example, instead of opening your letter with some such trite, worn-out statement as," I saw your advertisement in today's paper," plan your first sentence to arouse interest at once.
  例如，信开头不写“我在今天的报纸上看到你们的广告”等陈词俗套开头，设计一下开头的句子，立即引起注意。
• Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite. Keiner made verses too, but very indifferently.
  平庸的，陈腐的令人沮丧的且常为可预见的平庸陈腐；平庸陈腐的凯默也做诗，但很平庸。
• 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。
• His meticulous observations of family life can seem trite in comparison with the events soon to come.
  他所小心翼翼观测描绘的那些家庭生活，与即将来临的事件相比显得索然无味。
• Whatever you do, don't worry about it looking trite: if it looks cool and is factually correct, use it.
  无论你做什么，不要担心它看上去陈旧：如果它看上去很酷而且事实正确，那就使用它。
• Your alibi is pretty trite.
  你的托辞实在不怎么新鲜。
• 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。
• The result is the development of Chinese painting to a extreme, or self-proclaimed conservative, stick to trite;
  其结果是将大陆画的发展推向一个极端，要么保守自封，坚守陈腐；
• 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。