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 banal [bə'nɑl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 平凡的, 陈腐的

  1. A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant.
    陈腔滥调陈腐的或平庸的评论或陈述,尤指某人表述它时好象它是新颖的或有意义的
  2. In any other country, this message might seem banal.
    在任何其他国家看来,他这次拜访可能在平常不过了。
  3. Chris' banal advice was no help to us in solving our problem.
    克里斯陈腐的劝告对于解决我们的问题完全没有帮助。


banal
[ adj ]
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
<adj.all>
bromidic sermonshis remarks were trite and commonplace
hackneyed phrases
a stock answer
repeating threadbare jokes
parroting some timeworn axiom
the trite metaphor `hard as nails'


Banal \Ban"al\, a. [F., fr. ban an ordinance.]
Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

  1. There are no such good reasons for showing odd episodes from The Buccaneers, The Adventures Of William Tell, The Persuaders and a lot of other ATV series which are banal, repetitive and best forgotten.
  2. The views of Sud-Ouest on Bosnia seem neither notably exotic nor especially banal over a kir on the terrasse of one's gite. It is one's own newspapers that suddenly seem odd or absurd.
  3. (Black and white being the most obvious). A formal evening dress with stockings and stilettos looks somewhat out-of-place, even banal, in a mediterranean setting.
  4. Afraid to offend and confuse with tough, honest criticism, even department heavyweights will pass the most banal and badly conceived paper, and accept the leanest excuse for absence from class, when proffered by someone of a darker hue.
  5. Obviously his heart was not in it, for the mostly short numbers are relentlessly bright, brittle and banal.
  6. In what seems a fairly banal development the man decides to spend more time with his family. Yet this is only a teasing, though longish, start: almost a decoy, just as Hitchcock and Truffaut have been mentioned in the early dialogue.
  7. Meanwhile, he has done a marvellous impersonation of a cynical modern, plain clothes Inspector. The opening is banal.
  8. He has denied any wrongdoing, and describes the investigation as 'a banal non-event'. Mr Suard's detention followed the imprisonment in Belgium for 12 days during May of Mr Didier Pineau-Valencienne, chairman of France's Schneider electrical group.
  9. Although much of its output in the Soviet period was banal, it was at least Russian.
  10. By placing the weight of a paragraph on a measly couple of words, it is handy for making the banal seem portentous.
  11. Conceived in New York's The Production Company as a group experiment in making "a theatrical piece about banal behavior," this play came to life and thrived both Off Broadway and in Los Angeles, where it won the L.A. Drama Critics Award.
  12. The tragedy of art and architecture being used so blatantly for banal propaganda purposes is that all artistic standards are debased.
  13. But an accurate overall balance - of good and bad news, of positive and negative developments over time - is equally important.' It is essential not to confuse good news with banal.
  14. But they are so banal that one wonders what the 990-odd submissions apparently rejected by the BFI were like.
  15. Defense attorney Danny Davis called the move for a retrial "banal stupidity" and accused the district attorney of using the case for political purposes.
  16. Atrocities have become banal in Quilali.
  17. After years of squabbling and 162 million Canadian dollars ($135 million) spent, the 49-year-old Mr. Safdie has produced a wonderful setting for a wide-ranging and surprisingly fine collection that used to be entombed in a banal taupe office building.
  18. Organized by Bernard Brunon, an artist and curator based in Houston, the show is an attempt to underscore the "poetry" of the banal consumer objects taken for granted.
  19. Mr. Goeudevert laughed and said that he hoped experiences like his own would be banal before too long.
  20. The result was banal.
  21. 'We do our radical policy papers no favour by producing them in banal covers,' Mr Morgan said. He defended the decision to spend the money.
  22. But the writing sustains a glib, cheerful zip even through the many banal situations.
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