hackneyed是什么意思？

hackneyed

英[ˈhæknid] 美[ˈhæknid]

• adj. （词语、引语等）使用过于频繁的，陈腐的，老一套的，滥；

例句

• hackneyed language 陈腐的语言
• the hackneyed image of the poor student 老套的穷学生的形象
• 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.
• 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.
• The hackneyed phrase came unintended to his lips. 他顺口说了这句老掉牙的套话。
• This article is rather hackneyed. 这篇文章写得太呆板.
• ...hackneyed postcard snaps of lochs and glens. 老掉牙的苏格兰湖泊峡谷风景照片
• 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。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  （语句、画面等）陈腐的，陈词滥调的
  If you describe something such as a saying or an image as hackneyed, you think it is no longer likely to interest, amuse or affect people because it has been used, seen, or heard many times before.
  例句
  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。 ...hackneyed postcard snaps of lochs and glens. 老掉牙的苏格兰湖泊峡谷风景照片

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  (词语、引语等)使用过于频繁的,陈腐的,老一套的
  the hackneyed image of the poor student 老套的穷学生的形象 hackneyed language 陈腐的语言

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
  "bromidic sermons""his remarks were trite and commonplace""hackneyed phrases""a stock answer""repeating threadbare jokes""parroting some timeworn axiom""the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"