banal

banal

美 [bəˈnɑl] 　英 [bəˈnɑːl]

• adj.平庸的；平淡乏味的；无关紧要的；陈腐的
• 网络平凡的；庸俗；陈腐平庸

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A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed AS if it were original or significant.

陈腔滥调陈腐的或平庸的评论或陈述，尤指某人表述它时好象它是新颖的或有意义的

Making banal remarks was one of his bad habits.

他的坏习惯之一就是喜欢说些陈词滥调。

In Ulysses, the events of the day seem to be trivial, insignificant or even banal.

在《尤利西斯》小说中，这一天内发生的事情极为琐碎，毫无意义，甚至非常陈腐。

The reality was far more banal: doctors concluded that Princess Grace had suffered some sort of attack, most likely a minor stroke.

现实情况是远远陈腐：医师断定王妃遭到某种攻击最有可能是轻微中风。

It sounds almost banal to say, [but] it's a really big world out there, and the United States has responsibilities practically everywhere.

听起来像是陈词滥调，[但]这世界实在太大了，而美国的职责几乎无处不在。

The most banal observation counts as an "insight" , while anything that vaguely makes sense is said to have "compelling logic" .

再平庸不过的看法被奉为“洞见”，而稍稍有那么点儿道理的东西都被说成具有“不容置疑的逻辑性”。

While they enjoy the comfort and banal luxury of their dwelling , they do not realize that they are deprived of the necessities of life.

他们喜欢舒适平庸而奢华的住所，但他们没有认识到缺少了生活的必需品。

It was above all that our deliberations were banal or irrelevant.

最主要的是，我们的考虑平平庸庸，或者说不得要领。

To some readers, The One Minute Manager may seem to be every bit as banal and simplistic - as obvious, in fact - as Mr Dale's The Obvious.

对某些读者来说，《一分钟经理人》也许看起来完全跟戴尔的《显而易见》一样陈腐老套、过于简单——其实是一样“浅显”。

This is a banal untruth, uttered with an air of spurious profundity designed to embarrass people not on board for their project.

这是一个毫无新意的谎言，带有几分欺骗性的深奥，目的是让没有参与欧元项目的人感到尴尬。

and remove the need for "banal handshakes which are not always enthusiastic. "

而且这样的话，人们就不需要进行“老套的、通常又不怎么热情的握手了”。

As it is, of course, in his own sketchy paintings, where laden titles such as "Gas Chamber" explain elusive or banal images.

在他的画中，像《毒气室》（GasChamber）这样沉重的标题说明了难以琢磨或陈旧的图象。

Enormous SUVs and tank-like vehicles like the Hummer compete for showroom space with banal, small sedans.

庞大的SUV和坦克样的车辆和乏味的小轿车像蜂鸟们为夺取比赛陈列室的空间。

The film could then be embedded into otherwise banal correspondence as punctuation at the end of a sentence.

胶片会被做成句子末尾的标点，植入再普通不过的书信中。

Her pinions pussyfoot around the contradiction or pedantically try to harmonize the notion of radical and banal evil.

她的信徒小心翼翼地围绕这个矛盾或者学究式地试图协调极端和平庸的罪恶。

So the effect of banal commentary , and banal thinking in general , is to turn everything into undifferentiated pap .

所以，平庸评论和平庸思想效应总体来说，会把一切变成没差别的浆糊。

Chris' banal advice was no help to us in solving our problem.

克里斯陈腐的劝告对于解决我们的问题完全没有帮助。

While they enjoy the comfort and banal luxury of their dwelling, they do not realized that they are deprived of nessessities of life.

在享受自己住宅的舒适和庸俗的豪华时，却没有意识到被剥夺了生活所必需的东西。

You could say safety is not banal, but then it is not really a value at all.

你可能会说，安全并不是乏善可陈的，但安全也根本不算是一种价值观。

camp: an affectation or appreciation of manners and tastes commonly thought to be artificial, vulgar, or banal .

下流，庸俗，做作：行为或情趣上的矫揉造作，通常被认为是不自然的、粗俗的或平庸的。

The last time I did anything of this kind I was 13; the result then was banal and embarrassing and I hid it from everyone.

我上一次做这种事情是13岁的时候，结果是既平淡无奇又让人难为情，我把它藏了起来，不让任何人看到。

It suggests that war might lead us to see as banal the very horrifying act of killing other humans.

这表明战争可能会带我们去看犹如真去杀死其他人类的那种恐怖行动。

At times he vies with the leaders of the great sect of the Platitudinarians, and he can be as banal as he is brilliant.

有时他会与Platitudinarians大教派的领袖辩战，他光辉照人的同时又可以是平庸的。

There are other reasons as well, including the difficulty of saying something inspirational without being banal.

还有其他原因，其中包括要说出一些既给人以灵感又不落俗套的话并非易事。

Those familiar only with the banal 20th-century examples made for the tourist trade are in for a happy surprise.

那些对20世纪事件很熟悉的人来说，这些玩意仅仅是旅行者商贸上的快乐惊喜。

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。

This innocuous, quite banal statement conceals a great profundity: that no structure in the living world arises de novo.

这种乏善可陈、老生常谈的陈述掩盖了一种微言大义：生命世界中的任何结构都不是无中生有的。

Naturally. Simultaneous turns was one such idea, but we didn't implement because of banal lack of time.

自然有。即时的回合制就是一个，我们因为时间不够而没有实现。

I have become the victim of a banal situation blown up into a political scandal because of domestic squabbles inside Ukraine.

因为乌克兰政坛内部纷争，这起事件被刻意夸大为政治丑闻，而我成为了牺牲品。

But how do these other worldly qualities emerge from the banal subject of a bowl of flowers?

这不过是一瓶平凡无奇的花，为什么会显得如此超凡脱俗？

In realizing the political ambition of Japan, the banal political cultures should be reformed.

日本要实现政治抱负，有必要对其政治文化进行一番改革扬弃。

Even if you are saying something banal , it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

哪怕你是在说一些很平庸陈腐的东西，说得越模糊，越显得独创而有哲理。

The photographs are a series of close-up, large scale images of banal objects including paint tins and garden ornaments.

这些作品是一系列普通物件如油漆罐、园艺装饰品等的大特写。

and the prince and the princess live happily from then on. That's about it, the banal form of fairy tales.

王子和公主从此幸福生活，就是这样了，老掉牙的童话故事套路。

The policy-related passages in "The Audacity of Hope" , his second autobiography, are scattershot and banal.

在他第二部自传中于政策相关的章节，仍然显得漫无目的并且老套。

What could be more routine and apparently banal than taking up soap and water and washing yourself?

还有什么比拿肥皂洗澡更普通和更明显陈腐的？

To casual browsers, most of the resulting content is, unsurprisingly, banal.

对于偶尔来的访客而言，多数内容都很枯燥，这并不令人感到意外。

We will not get carried away, never tweeting about a fresh "cuppa" or, worse, some banal corporate achievement.

我们不会沉迷其中，永远不会在上面絮叨一杯“新茶”或者——更糟的是——公司某项平淡无奇的成就；

They purposefully conspire to carry out these acts of terrorism under the banal excuse of self defence.

他们以陈腐的自卫为借口，蓄意地密谋发动了这些恐怖事件。

Her every move in public, no matter how banal, gets chronicled by a swarm of videographers.

她的一举一动都在公众，不管如何陈腐，得到理工学院，由一窝蜂的影视制作人。