词汇 | trite |
释义 | trite adjective disapprovinguk /traɪt/ us /traɪt/ expressed too often to be interesting or seem sincere: 陈腐的;老一套的 His lyrics about love and peace are too trite for me to take them seriously.他写的关于爱情与和平的歌词太陈腐了,我可不拿它当回事。 I know it will sound trite, but I've loved being part of this club.我知道这听起来很老套,可我还是要说,加入这个俱乐部给我带来了快乐。 Synonyms banal commonplace hackneyeddisapproving shopwornUS stock threadbare(WEAK) timeworn tired(NOT INTERESTING) Plain and ordinary as it comesidiom austere austerely austerity average Joe homespun homey humble humdrum middle-of-the-road something/nothing to shout aboutidiom sparely spartan stale starkly unostentatious unostentatiously unpainted unremarkable unremarkably You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Tedious and uninspiring Related wordstritely triteness trite | American Dictionarytrite adjective us/trɑɪt/ done or expressed too often to be of any interest: Even good acting couldn’t make up for the trite story. Examples of tritetrite At the risk of sounding overly trite-no method is a panacea; each comes with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. It is trite to point out that the processes underlying culture are adaptations and that socially learned information and cultural inheritance may increase reproductive success. A second imperative is the avoidance of the cliche, the tired, the trite, the hackneyed. But the formulation of principles that capture the workings of this mechanism is anything but trite. While superficially appearing to be trite formulas, the detail of individual models and their internal dialectic produce endless variety within broadly understood patterns. It is little attended to, and yet still so obvious as to seem trite. His own beliefs are never spelt out, but he does not disguise his contempt for the trite rationalism of most academic discourse. In this respect, the notion of intrinsic value of a simple continuity between inside and outside seems to me trite. In doing so, his narrative turns double voiced, contesting its own authority, rendering its own deficient and trite vocabulary on race suspect. The act of imagining, however, follows such staid and predictable lines that one is forced to ask where the trite ideas are coming from and what is informing them. It's not really worth taking the philosophy too seriously, but if you wanted to accord it the honour, it reveals a trite, reactionary politics of seamless global unity. This can be made to sound trite: the way the world looks, feels, sounds, and tastes to us depends on how the world is and how we are. I hope that sounds right, even trite. This somewhat trite observation nevertheless not only led to a profitable approach to some aspects of seed dormancy, but also to a better insight to viability problems (see later). This suggestion may seem trite. 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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