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

• 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。
• Vagueness is the hackneyed phenomenon in human languages.
  模糊词语是人类语言中常见的现象。
• A monastic should be detached, easy, open-minded and not hackneyed in temperament, and thus proved to be a true man.
  出家人要流露出一种超然从容、豁达离俗的气质，才不愧为大丈夫相。
• A newspaper should be lively and should avoid hackneyed stuff.
  报纸要办得生动，切忌死板老套。
• A soap opera with a hackneyed plot;
  情节老掉牙的肥皂剧；
• Repeated too often; trite or hackneyed.
  陈腐的重复太多的；陈词或滥调的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Or maybe we will criticize it for being boring or hackneyed.
  我们或许会批评它，因为它乏味，或者因为它陈腐。
• Music, verse, drama, etc that is banal, sentimental or hackneyed
  平庸、感伤或陈腐的音乐、诗歌、戏剧等