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

• 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。
• It was spiritual, but it wasn't trite.
  但是她爱他是精神上的，决不是俗套。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The heading is trite.
  标题陈旧。
• My speech seemed lively and interesting as I was writing it, but it came out trite, dull and ridiculous.
  当我在写演讲稿时它似乎显得生动有趣，但是到头来却变得平淡、无趣和可笑。
• 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。
• That was true no matter how trite it sounded.
  这种话听起来像是陈词滥调，不过，这是真话。
• Your alibi is pretty trite.
  你的托辞实在不怎么新鲜。