hackneyed
英['hæknid]
美['hæknɪd]
- 陈腐的， 老一套的
双语例句
- 1. This article is rather hackneyed.
- 这篇文章写得太呆板.
- 2. 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。
- 3. The hackneyed phrase came unintended to his lips.
- 他顺口说了这句老掉牙的套话。
- 4. Properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate.
- 如果用得得当, 而不是滥用的话, 这几个字倒是恰当的好字眼.
- 5. If the theme were hackneyed, I should be obliged to deal gently with the reader.
- 假如这是个老生常谈的题目, 我只消向读者轻描淡写一番就行了.