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

• A newspaper should be lively and should avoid hackneyed stuff.
  报纸要办得生动，切忌死板老套。
• 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。
• But when many people listen to philosophy, they often hear some hackneyed and stereotyped expressions and feel puzzled.
  但当我们去聆听哲学时，听到的总是一些陈词滥调或不知所云而毫无智慧的感觉。
• He sometimes slips into rather dreadful puns and hackneyed language.
  他有时会失口说出很刺耳的双关语和极陈腐的话来。
• Hackneyed words and expressions should be avoided in writing.
  写文章务去陈言。
• 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。
• Research on Relationship between Hackneyed Heat Insulator Density and Coefficient of Heat Conductivity
  常见保温材料密度与导热系数关系的研究
• It was a dark and stormy night "is a hackneyed beginning for a story. save".
  “那是一个风雨交加的黑暗的夜晚”，这是常见的故事的开头。
• 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。
• 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。