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

• In them, transverse crack, lengthways crack and other linear crack are hackneyed.
  裂缝是高速公路早期病害的主要形式之一，其中以横向裂缝、纵向裂缝等线状裂缝最为常见。
• The hackneyed methods of clipping include the frequency of clipping, the time of clipping and the mode of clipping.
  常见的刈割包括刈割频次、刈割时间和刈割方式。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The traditional, but somewhat hackneyed approach is to turn the weakenss into strength.
  最传统也最老套的方法是转弱为强。
• In the last 30 years, we have essentially changed the comprehension about tic disorders. Especially since the 1990s, tic disorders has been widely considered a hackneyed phenomena. It is caused by genetic obstacle and bad environmental factors.
  近30余年来，我们对抽动障碍的认识发生了本质的改变，特别是90年代以来，医学界普遍认为抽动障碍非常多见，是一种由遗传缺陷和不良环境因素所致的神经精神发育障碍。