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

• 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。
• The sentiments about love and peace in the lyrics of his songs are too trite for me to take them seriously.
  他的抒情歌里所表达的爱与和平的情感对我来说太陈腐了，不能当真。
• 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。
• I suppose it's a trite observation that very often psychologists study the sort of phenomena that they personally find intriguing or interesting.
  这么说或许是老生常谈：心理学家往往会研究那些令他们本人感到好奇或者有趣的现象。
• Repeated too often; trite or hackneyed.
  陈腐的重复太多的；陈词或滥调的。
• 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；
• A trite or obvious remark. ideas that are presentable in simple language
  陈腐的或显而易见的言词。能以简朴语言陈述的思想
• Yes it might be trite, but it is true.
  好吧，这或许很老套，但这是事实。
• 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。