trite

Trite praises came flowing into the books or to be printed onto pages only made the important issues difficultly understood and dim wisdom.

已被写入书本的以及即将被写入档案文件的陈腐过时的评论，只会使重要的事情变得晦涩费解。

A. As many people have guessed, the word "boyfriend" seems sort of trite and schoolyard-ish in the light of how Bella feels about Edward.

答：正如很多朋友认为，比照贝拉内心对爱德华的真正感觉，“男朋友”这个词似乎有点老土和过于学生气了。

But if I only asked questions like this they would soon become trite and boring. More quiz show than presentation.

但如果我只问这种简单的问题，听众很快就会觉得无聊了。

A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed AS if it were original or significant.

陈腔滥调陈腐的或平庸的评论或陈述，尤指某人表述它时好象它是新颖的或有意义的

What I had said to Daniel was clumsy and trite. It was nothing. And yet, it was everything.

我对丹尼尔的表达是笨拙的和老套的。它什么都不是，然而，它也是一切。

I know it's trite to say it, but it's so easy to get off the path to a good plan if you don't have the goals clearly defined up front.

我知道这样说有点老套，但如果您还没有清晰地定义前方的目标，那么可以非常轻松地开辟出通往一项良好计划的道路。

This may seem like an awfully trite observation and, frankly, a terrible waste of the Financial Times' money.

这听上去或许毫无新意，老实讲，也像是在白白浪费英国《金融时报》的钱财。

Does a poet siring up trite sentiments in rhyme? he also becomes the great man of the hour.

诗人用押韵的形式把陈旧的万事俱备串连起来，一时间也成为伟人。

One can't instantly "snap out of it" . It "takes time" , as the trite-but-true saying goes.

正如老生常谈但又真实的谚语所说的，人不会突然间振作起来，这都是需要时间的。

Whatever you do, don't worry about it looking trite: if it looks cool and is factually correct, use it.

无论你做什么，不要担心它看上去陈旧：如果它看上去很酷而且事实正确，那就使用它。

But what it takes is a commitment from all of us to essentially refuse trite assumptions, get out of our ideological boxes.

仅仅只是需要我们的承诺以便从根本上的消除老旧的假设，走出我们理想的盒子。

The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

我总觉得，人们所努力追求的庸俗的目标--财产、虚荣、奢侈的生活--都是可鄙的。

That's a trite way of saying that anybody who's been around any length of time is no stranger to cyclical ups and downs.

只要在职场上打拼过一段时间的人都不会对周期性起伏感到陌生，这是一种老套的说法。

Well, Americans do often use this trite greeting, and they generally expect nothing but the standard answer.

其实美国人的确常用这老套的问候方式，而他们所期待的，也只是一般的标准回答。

It is trite to say that the scarcity of happiness among many people is due to the corresponding scarcity of love among them.

很多人缺乏幸福正是因为他们缺少爱，这种说法已不新鲜。

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。

Perhaps that's trite and pessimistic but I suppose this way of thinking is more common than we tend to gather or even realize.

也许这很迂腐很悲观，但我想这种思考方式可能比我们下意识去搜集，甚至后知后觉的要普遍得多。

Instead, he chooses to package his career into a series of trite leadership lessons.

相反地，他选择把他的金融生涯写成一个老生常谈的领导力课程。

His complaint about the working conditions is always trite.

他对工作条件的抱怨总是老一套。

She likes to ask trite questions.

她喜欢问犄角旮旯儿的问题。