platitude

英 [ˈplætɪtjuːd]

美 [ˈplætɪtuːd]

n.  陈词滥调; 老生常谈

复数：platitudes　

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BNC.19933 / COCA.20203

牛津词典

noun

• 陈词滥调；老生常谈
  a comment or statement that has been made very often before and is therefore not interesting

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 陈词滥调；套话
  Aplatitudeis a statement which is considered meaningless and boring because it has been made many times before in similar situations.
  1. Why couldn't he say something original instead of spouting the same old platitudes?
     他为什么就不能讲些有新意的话，而不是喋喋不休地说些老生常谈呢？
  2. ...a stream of platitudes, outlining many problems but offering few solutions.
     概述了很多问题、但几乎没有提出解决办法的一串陈词滥调

英英释义

noun

• a trite or obvious remark
  Synonym:clichebanalitycommonplacebromide

双语例句

• This is not a platitude nor theorem, it is a truism.
  这不是陈词滥调，而是事实。
• How to improve college English teaching is a platitude but the significance of doing so can't be neglected.
  如何提高高校外语教学质量可谓老生常谈。然而意义却不容忽视。
• End your speech with an attitude, not a platitude.
  用一种有力的态度结束你的演讲，而不是用那些陈词滥调。
• The problem appears to be a platitude in fact, but not many artists can answer it. Therefore, there appear the difference of the current artists and the diversity of the meaning.
  问题看似老生常谈，实际上并不是许多人能做到的，因为此，就分别出了当下的艺术家的差异和意义。
• It used to be a platitude of Western and Marxist analysis of China that wrenching economic change would demand political reform.
  套用一句西方经济学家还有马克思主义者的陈词滥调来分析中国：剧烈的经济转变必将需求政治上的改革。
• I became a walking platitude, telling friends without a trace of irony to live every day as though it were their last.
  我成了行走着的话唠（活生生的唐僧？），我不带丝毫讽刺意味地告诉朋友们，要像它是人生最后一天一样过好每一天。
• With reference to ordinary company governance, it has been a platitude for a long time; but the particularity of financial holding group, can never compared with that of ordinary company.
  关于一般公司的治理，已是老生常谈的问题，但金融控股集团的公司治理特殊性，却远非一般公司所能对比。
• Scale is a platitude problem of geomorphology.
  尺度是一个老生常谈的地学问题。
• The topic of translation criteria may be thought of as platitude, but such assumption is rather misleading.
  翻译标准这个话题似乎已是老生常谈，其实不然。
• But this is just a reassuring platitude.
  但这不过是用来安慰人的陈词滥调。