Trite
[traɪt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
編輯:梅布尔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Common, stale, threadbare, hackneyed, beaten, worn out, common-place.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Worn, hackneyed, stale, threadbare, commonplace, obvious, familiar, trivial
ANT:Original, novel, startling, inventive
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解釋/意思:
adj. worn out by use: used till its novelty and interest are lost: hackneyed.—adv. Trite′ly.—n. Trite′ness.
整理:丽纳
例句/造句/用法:
- I found her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, is rather a trite one. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- That was true no matter how trite it sounded. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- What is one man’s food is another man’s poison has been a trite old saying for many years, but the reason why has only in late years been fully understood. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- For the rest, whether trite or novel, it is short. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It is a trite saying that history repeats itself, and certainly no axiom carries more truth than this when applied to the history of each of Edison's important inventions. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I make this trite remark, because I happen to know that Messrs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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