old chestnut

old chestnut

美 　英

• 网络陈词滥调；栗子老了；老套

英汉解释

na.	1. a story or joke that has been repeated so often that everyone is bored with it

例句

Lincoln's sigh, quoted above, is a bit of an old chestnut. But it tells us something about the great president's character.

前文提到了林肯的叹息也已经是一种陈词滥调了，但是这让我们对这位伟大总统的性格有了更深的了解。

Lincoln's sigh, quoted above, is a bit of an old chestnut.

在上文中引用的林肯的叹息有点老生常谈。

I cannot tell you how ancient it makes me feel to be dealing with the re-emergence of this old chestnut.

我无法告诉你处理这场重新出现的旧问题对我来说时隔多长时间。

He gave as his excuse for being late that old chestnut about the train being delayed.

他用火车误点那样老掉牙的说法作为自己迟到的借口。更详细。

That hoary old chestnut should've been put to bed with the white australia policy.

这么老掉牙的东西还是和白澳政策一起塞到床底下去吧。

The Golden Rule ( "do unto your customers. . . " ) is an old chestnut of the marketing world.

黄金法则（“对待你的客户”）是营销界非常古老的一条法则。

The old chestnut about women being more emotional than men has been forever destroyed by the facts of two great wars.

那些古老的认为女人比男人更容易情绪化的想法都被两次世界大战的事实所打破。

an old chestnut to us, and we have heard it more than one hundred times.

祖父老是讲那老掉牙的故事，我们都听了不下一百次了。

I will be happy if. . . I still hear this old chestnut.

如果……我就会感到快乐直到现在我仍然能听到这句老话。

The issue at stake is that old chestnut of global macroeconomic imbalances.

关键就在于人们常说的全球宏观经济失衡。