platitude
platitude 英 [ˈplætɪtju:d] 美 [ˈplætɪtud]
n. 陈词滥调；平凡；陈腐
名词复数:platitudes
- If an executive gives a speech that begins, "This business is all about survival of the fittest. You need to burn the midnight oil and take one for the team," his employees might get sick of listening to these meaningless clichés and tell him to cut the platitudes.
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- n. 陈词滥调；平凡；陈腐
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1. That's no platitude; the boundary between the two is surprisingly clear.
这并非陈词滥调；这两者之间的界限极其清晰。
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2. It sounds like a platitude that fiction is the realm of imagination, fact the realm of knowledge.
小说是想象的领地而现实是知识的领地，这句话听起来有点陈词滥调了。
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3. When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.
当亚里士多德说,人类天生是政治动物，他的主张,不只是老生常谈,或是陈腔滥调。
- platitude (n.) 1812, "dullness," from French platitude "flatness, vapidness" (late 17c.), from Old French plat "flat" (see plateau (n.)); formed on analogy of latitude, etc. Meaning "a flat, dull, or commonplace remark" is recorded from 1815. Related: Platitudinous. Hence platitudinarian (n.), 1855; platitudinize (1867).
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