trite

[英] [traɪt] [美] [traɪt] 生词本

adj.

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1. ADJ-GRADED 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。

Adjective

1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;

  • "bromidic sermons"
  • "his remarks were trite and commonplace"
  • "hackneyed phrases"
  • "a stock answer"
  • "repeating threadbare jokes"
  • "parroting some timeworn axiom"
  • "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
1. The heading is trite.
标题陈旧。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》