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

• Vagueness is the hackneyed phenomenon in human languages.
  模糊词语是人类语言中常见的现象。
• Here is what the book has to say on this hackneyed theme: We strive to make our world comfortable for people of all stripes, thinking styles and hairdos – even when they exceed our comfort level.
  关于这个陈腐的主题，这本书不得不说的话就是：我们努力让我们的世界让各种类型、思维方式和发型的人都感到舒服&就算他们超出了我们的舒服程度，也不例外。
• 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。
• 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。
• But when many people listen to philosophy, they often hear some hackneyed and stereotyped expressions and feel puzzled.
  但当我们去聆听哲学时，听到的总是一些陈词滥调或不知所云而毫无智慧的感觉。
• Too often used or too well known to be effective; hackneyed.
  因经常使用或尽人皆知而无效力的；陈腐的。
• 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。
• 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。
• A work of art ( composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition.
  一件艺术品（乐曲或戏剧），它是标准剧目的一部分，但因为重复过多而变得陈腐。