参考例句

1. 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。

2. 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。

3. That expression of "violently in love" is so hackneyed , so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea.

   所谓“爱得火热”，这种话未免太陈腐，太笼统，太不切合实际，我简直抓不住一点儿概念。

4. He sometimes slips into rather dreadful puns and hackneyed language.

   他有时会失口说出很刺耳的双关语和极陈腐的话来。

5. Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition;hackneyed .

   陈腐的，老一套的因久用或重复而失去引起兴趣的力量的，老生常谈的

6. `It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story.

   故事的开头妙趣横生。

7. To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.

   使…变陈腐因不加区别的使用而使之变得平庸，陈腐

8. 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。

9. 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。

10. An utterance of conventional notions or beliefs;a hackneyed expression.

    客套话常用信条的陈述或信仰的自白；陈腐的语句

同义词

• banal
• commonplace
• old-hat
• shopworn
• stock(a)
• threadbare
• timeworn
• tired
• trite
• well-worn