trite
adj. (言语、想法等)老生常谈的,陈腐的,老一套的
If you say that something such as an idea, remark, or story is trite, you mean that it is dull and boring because it has been said or told too many times.
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。
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。
1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
This, too, trite, but its inherent truth is undeniable.
这句话, 虽然老套, 但是其固有的道理是不容置疑的.
Your Inner Fish is, perhaps, a rather trite title for such a magisterial work.
也许对于一本如此权威的著作来说,《你体内的鱼》是一个比较陈腐的标题.
It was spiritual, but it wasn't trite.
但是她爱他是精神上的, 决不是俗套.
He ended his lecture with a trite morality.
他以陈腐的说教结束了演讲.
It is tempting to dismiss this trite formulation as a meaningless excuse for inaction.
抛弃无作为的无意义的借口的陈词滥调很有诱惑.