banal

英 [bəˈnɑːl]

美 [bəˈnɑːl]

adj.  平庸的; 平淡乏味的; 无关紧要的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 平庸的；平淡乏味的；无关紧要的
  very ordinary and containing nothing that is interesting or important

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 平庸的；平淡无奇的
  If you describe something asbanal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
  1. The text is banal...
     课文索然无味。
  2. Bland, banal music tinkled discreetly from hidden loudspeakers.
     隐藏的喇叭里幽幽地传出平淡乏味的音乐。
  3. You can refer to banal things asthe banal.
     平庸的事物；平淡无奇的东西
  4. The allegations ranged from the banal to the bizarre.
     从平淡无奇到离奇百怪的各种说法都有。

英英释义

adj

• repeated too often
  1. bromidic sermons
  2. his remarks were trite and commonplace
  3. hackneyed phrases
  4. a stock answer
  5. repeating threadbare jokes
  6. parroting some timeworn axiom
  7. the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
  Synonym:commonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstock(a)threadbaretimeworntiredtritewell-worn

双语例句

• I couldn't think of anything to say that wouldn't sound banal.
  我想不出任何听上去不是陈词滥调的话可说。
• Put like this it sounds banal, though actually it's heresy.
  听起来这好像是老一套，但实际上，这是一种异端学说。
• Silicon Valley companies sit on a trove of data about our most banal daily pursuits.
  硅谷企业掌握了大量关于我们最平凡日常事务的数据。
• Most financial-planning advice, like most New Year's resolutions, is too complex or too banal.
  大多数财务规划建议就像大多数新年许愿一样，不是太复杂就是太平庸。
• He just sat there making banal remarks all evening.
  他整晚都坐在那儿说些无聊的话。
• At that age, I had little wisdom and what some would call a fairly banal Irish Catholic upbringing: my father was a gifted horseman, a raging alcoholic, and a crisis-fomenting tyrant.
  在那个年龄，我有一点智慧和可以被称为一个平凡的爱尔兰天主教徒的抚养：我的父亲是一个天才的骑师，一个疯狂的酗酒者和一个助长危机的暴君。
• The text is banal
  课文索然无味。
• With children in tow I was planning a more wholesome, though equally as banal, existence.
  因为有孩子跟着，我计划过一种更有益健康，但同样平淡无奇的生活。
• And rose above banal social and moral conventions to construct an authentic life.
  并超越陈腐的社会道德传统，而过着自己真正的生活。
• This managed to be both butch and banal; to quote glibly from a Tom Hanks movie when you have made the savings of your investors shrink was insultingly crass.
  这句话既成功表现出了粗俗的男子气，又显得陈词滥调；你已使投资者的储蓄缩水了，还狡猾地引用汤姆•汉克斯（TomHanks）电影中的话，这样做既无礼又粗鲁。