hackneyed
hackneyed 英 [ˈhæknid] 美 [ˈhæknid]
adj. 陈腐的；平庸的 v. 出租（马匹、马车等）；役使（hackney的过去式）
- Hackneyed is a word for language that doesn't pack a punch since it's overused and trite. "Roses are red, violets are..." — enough already?! That's hackneyed stuff.
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- adj. 陈腐的；平庸的
- v. 出租（马匹、马车等）；役使（hackney的过去式）
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1. There is probably no phrase much more hackneyed than that of ''human document, '' yet it is the only one which at all describes this very unusual book.
也许没有比“人类的记录”更陈腐的词语了，但它确实是唯一可以形容这本不寻常的书的词。
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2. In particular he criticizes political leaders for being sucked into using meaningless phrases and hackneyed mantras to disguise policies or protect themselves from accountability.
他还特别批评了政府领导人们热衷于使用无意义词语和陈腐高调来伪饰政策或推脱责任的行为。
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3. Today it’s become a way overused and hackneyed, and I take some blame for that!
而今天它出现的滥用与陈腐现象，我也需要承担一定的责任！
- hackneyed (adj.) "trite, so overused as to have become uninteresting," 1749, figurative use of past-participle adjective from hackney (v.) "use a horse for riding" (1570s), hence "make common by indiscriminate use" (1590s), from hackney (n.), and compare hack (n.2) in its specialized sense of "one who writes anything for hire." From 1769 as "kept for hire."
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