banality

英 [bəˈnæləti]

美 [bəˈnæləti]

n.  平庸; 平淡乏味; 陈腐的事物; 陈词滥调

复数：banalities　

BNC.20540 / COCA.20303

牛津词典

noun

• 平庸；平淡乏味；陈腐的事物；陈词滥调
  the quality of being banal ; things, remarks, etc. that are banal
  1. the banality of modern city life
     现代城市生活的单调乏味
  2. They exchanged banalities for a couple of minutes.
     他们彼此客套了几分钟。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 平庸的；平淡无奇的
  If you describe something asbanal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
  1. The text is banal...
     课文索然无味。
  2. Bland, banal music tinkled discreetly from hidden loudspeakers.
     隐藏的喇叭里幽幽地传出平淡乏味的音乐。
  3. You can refer to banal things asthe banal.
     平庸的事物；平淡无奇的东西
  4. The allegations ranged from the banal to the bizarre.
     从平淡无奇到离奇百怪的各种说法都有。

英英释义

noun

• a trite or obvious remark
  Synonym:platitudeclichecommonplacebromide

双语例句

• But the banality of your own life is very real to you.
  但是平凡的生活对你言却是很真实。
• The paper expounds the methods about improve quality of gangue sintering brick from the technology of purgation homogeneity banality.
  本文从净化均化陈化工艺方面阐述了提高煤矸石烧结砖质量的措施。
• There is something familiar in the banality of the riddle too, and in the weirdness of its poser.
  也有一些是熟悉的平庸的谜太多，以及在其波塞尔的怪事。
• He couldn't believe the banality of the question.
  他无法相信那问题竟如此陈腐。
• If finding banality was surprising for Arendt, it is now what we expect and what everywhere surrounds us.
  如果发现平庸让阿伦特感到错愕，这倒是如今的我们所期待的，或者说它正无处不在地包围着我们。
• Whether it is lasting or not, there is beauty and banality, then what the wonderful things really is?
  不管是短暂的还是长久的，都有美丽与平凡，那么美好的东西到底是什么呢？
• Its superficiality and banality could be interpreted as a critique of shopping.
  它的肤浅和平庸可能被解释为一个购物的批判。
• In a speech he asked Iranian men and women to abstain from sex after watching satellite TV so that the embryo would not be polluted by the banality.
  在一次演讲中，他呼吁伊朗的男女在看完卫星电视之后不要发生关系，这样就可以使胎儿免于腐朽事物的污染。
• Banality weakens our intellectual, spiritual and ethical muscles, rendering us flabby thinkers, unable or unwilling to chew over the difficult matter of experience and make it part of us.
  平庸削弱我们的智力、精神乃至伦理力量，把我们塑造成有气无力的思考者，没有能力或不愿意咀嚼经验中艰涩的事物，并使之成为我们的一部分。
• Then, the paper discusses the transformation of Arendt 'sthoughts on evil, which changes from "the radical evil" to "the banality of evil" aswell as the relationship between them.
  接着，论文讨论了阿伦特关于恶的思想变化的转折，即从根本的恶到平庸的恶的转变及两者关系。