| 单词 | trite |
| 释义 | trite 1. a. < trite diction > < a trite and commonplace observation — Earl of Chesterfield > < a subject which will seem trite to some — J.M.Moore > < a trite plot > b. < a trite speech > < poet … can be not only trite, he can be pompous, inflated — Times Literary Supplement > < too many trite objects in shiny yellow brass or dull black iron — New Yorker > 2. a. < trite coins > b. < a trite path > < all these regions are trite and familiar — Norman Douglas > Synonyms: < the foregoing remarks doubtless sound trite and commonplace — M.R.Cohen > < it is as true as it is trite to liken the desert to a sea and the camel to a ship — C.S.Coon > < one could wish however that he had found a less trite and commonplace way of ending his chapters — Geographical Journal > hackneyed, often interchangeable with trite, stresses the idea of such constant use that all significance or force is dulled or destroyed < the hackneyed pictures we have seen again and again — C.M.Smith > < used the hackneyed old theme of the vanity of earthly power for one of his best poems — Susanne K. Langer > < a hackneyed and cheap melodrama > stereotyped stresses an imitative quality, a usually total lack of originality or creativity < most advertising today is stereotyped — using the same words, the same ideas that we have had for more than 50 years — Printers' Ink > < a stereotyped novel about a young girl growing to womanhood > threadbare applies to what has been used or exploited so much that its possibilities of interest have been totally exhausted < when one writer hit upon a good phrase the others took it up and used it until it became threadbare — Stanley Walker > < this charge is becoming threadbare with repetition — J.H.Pollack > < our self-deceptive pretence of jollity at a threadbare joke — Nathaniel Hawthorne > shopworn suggests a loss, from constant use, of some or most of the qualities that appeal or arouse interest < there hardly exists a more shopworn plot than the one about the show that during its preparation has to battle against all sorts of obstacles to emerge in the end a sensational success — Vicki Baum > < when a book as unusual as this appears the old adjectives seem too shopworn to do it justice — Graham Bates > < he has devoted his very considerable talents to a shopworn theme: the building of the first space platform — J.F.McComas > |
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