Platitude
['plætɪtjuːd] or ['plætɪtud]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.
(n.) A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.
錄入:温德尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Insipidity, flatness, dulness, mawkishness.[2]. Twaddle, verbiage, palaver, trash, chatter, stuff, fudge, nonsense, moonshine, flummery, wish-wash, balderdash, jargon, nonsense, senseless prate, frothy discourse, idle talk.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Commonplace, generality, truism, triviality
ANT:Sophism, laconism, enigma, dictum, oracle
校對:内奥米
解釋/意思:
n. flatness: that which exhibits dullness of thought: an empty remark made as if it were important.—n. Platitudinā′rian one who indulges in platitudes.—adj. Platitū′dinous.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.
錄入:赖安
例句/造句/用法:
- For a platitude is generally inert wisdom. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The two big parties have had to preserve a superficial homogeneity; and a platitude is more potent than an issue. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The human impulses which create these social conditions, the human needs to which they are a sad and degraded answer--this human center of the problem the commission passes by with a platitude. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The call for greater parental responsibility is, I fear, a rather empty platitude, for it is not re-enforced with anything but an ancient fervor. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Had they held fast to that, it would have ceased to be a platitude and have become a fertile idea. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Compared with this creative statesmanship, the administering of a routine or the battle for a platitude is a very simple affair. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- His speeches began to turn on platitudes--on the vague idealism and indisputable moralities of the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was getting late, and we had no time to fool away on every ass that wanted to drivel Greek platitudes to us. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In the past it has been an armory of platitudes or a forecast of punishments. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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