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

• That's no platitude; the boundary between the two is surprisingly clear.
  这并非陈词滥调；这两者之间的界限极其清晰。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• The talk is no more than a platitude.
  这番话无非是老生常谈。
• With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
  讽刺作品用自然的嘲讽态度重新设置了观点，将熟悉的事物自相矛盾地置在一起。
• The problem appears to be a platitude in fact, but not many artists can answer it. Therefore, there appear the difference of the current artists and the diversity of the meaning.
  问题看似老生常谈，实际上并不是许多人能做到的，因为此，就分别出了当下的艺术家的差异和意义。
• This is not a platitude nor theorem, it is a truism.
  这不是陈词滥调，而是事实。
• Tony Blair and Bill Clinton proclaimed a third way, but this degenerated into platitude and vacuity.
  托尼·布莱尔（TonyBlair）和比尔·克林顿（billclinton）曾宣称第三条道路，但这一说辞已蜕变成陈词滥调和空谈。