hackneyed

英 [ˈhæknid]

美 [ˈhæknid]

adj.  陈腐的

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BNC.32700 / COCA.26346

牛津词典

adj.

• 陈腐的
  used too often and therefore boring
  1. a hackneyed phrase/subject
     陈词滥调；老生常谈的话题

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （语句、画面等）陈腐的，陈词滥调的
  If you describe something such as a saying or an image ashackneyed, you think it is no longer likely to interest, amuse or affect people because it has been used, seen, or heard many times before.
  1. Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
     权力导致腐败，绝对权力导致绝对腐败。这虽是老生常谈，但却是真理。
  2. ...hackneyed postcard snaps of lochs and glens.
     老掉牙的苏格兰湖泊峡谷风景照片

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:banalcommonplaceold-hatshopwornstock(a)threadbaretimeworntiredtritewell-worn

双语例句

• To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.
  陈腐的陈腐的或者平凡的；
• Too often used or too well known to be effective; hackneyed.
  因经常使用或尽人皆知而无效力的；陈腐的。
• A soap opera with a hackneyed plot;
  情节老掉牙的肥皂剧；
• Or maybe we will criticize it for being boring or hackneyed.
  我们或许会批评它，因为它乏味，或者因为它陈腐。
• I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.
  我见过一个吉卜赛流浪者，她用陈腐的方法操弄着手相术，告诉我她们那些人往往会怎样给人算命。
• And they yearn for meaningful tools to pass their values about living with great wealth to younger generations without a hackneyed, classroom-style approach.
  此外，他们还迫切希望获得有意义的工具，而不必通过老套的说教式方法，将他们如何处理巨额财富的价值观传递给后代。
• It has the same level of wit and originality we got with the first Shrek movie, and none of the hackneyed or blas é baggage we got from any of the sequels.
  它与《怪物史莱克I》有着同等水平的风趣机智和独创性。此外我们也看不到所有影片续集的通病&陈腐老套以及沉闷冗余。
• Vagueness is the hackneyed phenomenon in human languages.
  模糊词语是人类语言中常见的现象。
• I hate those hackneyed information, more hate those on the spur of the moment to play "thanksgiving".
  我讨厌那些陈词烂调的信息，更讨厌那些一时兴起玩“感恩”的人。
• This flourishing is a direct response to people's discontent with hackneyed and stereotyped modes of expression_r_r_r_r whose expressiveness has been worn away by centuries of overuse.
  这种百花齐放的繁荣是对人们的某种不满所做出的反应，人们已不再满足于各种陈腐的、老一套的表达方式，因为它们的表现力由于几个世纪的反复使用而丧失殆尽。