词汇 | platitude |
释义 | platitude noun[ C ] disapprovinguk /ˈplæt.ɪ.tjuːd/ us /ˈplæt̬.ə.tuːd/ a remark or statement that may be true but is boring and has no meaning because it has been said so many times before: 陈词滥调;老生常谈 He doesn't mouth platitudes about it not mattering who scores as long as the team wins.他不会说这样的套话:只要球队赢了,谁进球都不重要。 Synonyms bromide(COMMENT)formal commonplaceformal Remarks & remarking air annotate annotation annotator aside backbite backbiting barb commentary descant dog whistle felicity innuendo line mention profundity remark sideswipe throwaway zinger Related wordplatitudinous platitude | American Dictionaryplatitude noun[ C ] us/ˈplæt̬·ɪˌtud/ a statement that has been repeated so often that it is meaningless: They nodded at every platitude about making sacrifices today for a better tomorrow. Examples of platitudeplatitude That contemporary tropes entered the language of politicians hardly moves beyond platitude. For there are number of platitudes about utilitarianism and about how it relates to competitors like prioritarianism. There were, in addition, a few niggling little platitudes dotted around here and there, but the writing style was competent, if a little sermonising. That is, the term "red" names a certain property, one that satisfies a range of platitudes assumed by ordinary language users. I will discuss the three types of platitudes in turn. So because of the strong pressure to vindicate the platitude about ethical significance, there is also strong pressure to vindicate the utilitarian and prioritarian presupposition. That is because of the platitude about ethical significance. This result will be important when we return to the platitude about ethical significance. First, another platitude : a language is not a language without representational signs. Once she is reminded of certain platitudes about vagueness, the legal theorist needs no further help from philosophers of language and logic. It might be objected that whereas the standard claim about distributive sensitivity is widely regarded as a platitude, the alternate claim is not. If we are to appeal to the platitude about distributive sensitivity to constrain interpretation, we need an alternate reading of it. So it is those platitudes which are going to implicitly define the term if anything does. What determines the set of individual goodness measures just is the body of platitudes we accept about utilitarianism and prioritarianism. And since 'individual goodness measure' features in the standard definition of utilitarianism, it thereby features in those platitudes, at least implicitly. 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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