| 词汇 | hackneyed |
| 释义 | hackneyed adjective disapprovinguk /ˈhæk.nid/ us /ˈhæk.nid/ A hackneyed phrase or idea has been said or used so often that it has become boring and has no meaning: （语词或观点）陈腐的，老套的 The plot of the film is just a hackneyed boy-meets-girl scenario.这部电影的情节只不过是一个俗套的爱情故事。 Synonyms clichéd commonplace shopwornUS stock threadbare timeworn tired tritedisapproving Tedious and uninspiring (as) dull as ditchwateridiom anonymous banal banally basic marmoreal meh menial menially middle-aged staidly stale staleness stodgily stodgy watch paint dryidiom watch the clockidiom wearisome wearisomely weary hackneyed | American Dictionaryhackneyed adjective us/ˈhæk·nid/ used or said so often that it seems ordinary, meaningless, or not sincere: a hackneyed plot Examples of hackneyedhackneyed In non-literal terms a cliche came to describe an expression that was repeated so often that it lost its freshness and became hackneyed. In so doing, they are concerned to avoid hackneyed or pejorative phrases. I am still not entirely convinced by the idea of using these rather hackneyed tunes, especially as the word-setting is sometimes rather clumsy. What matters is that his music seldom sounds hackneyed. A second imperative is the avoidance of the cliche, the tired, the trite, the hackneyed. As a bonus, the text is illustrated throughout by plans and drawings, often far from hackneyed : medieval church art is a particularly lively source. It can hardly have been an accidental oversight that they rejected the most hackneyed of all operatic formulae inherited from the nineteenth century. To continue with my hackneyed metaphor, the play of the gravitational field not only modifies the stage - without the play, there would be no stage! This objection is hackneyed, but it carries more than a grain of truth. Mashriqi strengthened the importance of world history as proof for religious truth by employing a somewhat hackneyed technique of textual interpretation. Fowler instructs the writer to beware if hackneyed phrases should spring to mind. Hackneyed calls to 'carrying on the revolution' have lost all meaning. I now come to that hackneyed subject of the dive bomber. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I sometimes think that the hackneyed phrase, "a conspiracy of silence," is in our days inaccurate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to indulge in hackneyed language, but we have character and quality; we have the will and the potential energy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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