hackneyed

ˈhæknid
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Translation of hackneyed from English into Chinese

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Adjective

overused

used too often, lacking originality
  • The movie's plot was hackneyed and predictable.电影的情节老套且可预测。
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Expressions with hackneyed: examples in English and translations in Chinese

陈词滥调
His speech was full of hackneyed expressions.
陈词滥调
老生常谈
The speech was full of hackneyed phrases that bored the audience.

Synonyms and analogies of hackneyed in English

adj.clichédtriteMore synonyms

Examples of hackneyed in a sentence

  • The speech was filled with hackneyed phrases.
hackney
ˈhækni
Noun
1.

transportation

RareUK
carriage available for public hire
RareUK
马车 mǎchē出租马车 公共马车
  • They took a hackney to the theater.他们乘坐马车去剧院。
2.

carriage animal

DatedUK
horse for ordinary riding or driving
DatedUK
出租马 chūzū mǎ骑乘马 役用马 普通骑马 日用骑马
  • The old hackney was gentle enough for the children to ride.那匹出租马性情温顺,孩子们都能骑。
Verb
tr.
1.

overuse

RareUK
make something uninteresting by frequent use
RareUK
用滥 yòng làn
  • The phrase was hackneyed by constant repetition.这个短语因不断重复而被用滥了。
2.

transportation

RareUK
use a horse or carriage for hire
RareUK
租用 zūyòng雇用 gùyòng租借 zūjiè
  • They hackneyed the horse for the afternoon ride.他们租用了马匹进行下午的骑行。

Expressions with hackney: examples in English and translations in Chinese

出租车
的士
We hailed a hackney cab to get to the hotel.
出租车
计程车
He flagged down a hackney carriage to get to the airport on time.

Translations of "hackneyed" in Context ordered by category and frequency

Adjective / Participle
陈腐adj. - chén fǔ

This is a very hackneyed truth.

这是一个非常陈腐的真相。

Repeated too often; trite or hackneyed.

陈腐的重复太多的;

老套adj. - lǎo tào

On Valentine's Day, chocolate and roses are hackneyed presents for girls.

在情人节送女孩巧克力和玫瑰是老套的礼物。

Hackneyed themes in the novel made it feel stale and unoriginal.

小说里充斥着司空见惯的老套主题,看起来沉闷又缺乏新意。

老掉牙adj. - lǎo diào yá

Every speech he gave was filled with a hackneyed phrase that made audiences yawn.

他每次演讲都塞满了老掉牙的套话,听众都要打哈欠。

hackneyed postcard snaps of lochs and glens.

老掉牙的苏格兰湖泊峡谷风景照片

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hackneyed: Examples and translations in context

But this pall, the phrase has become so hackneyed that we realized that we needed to change something.

但这种阴影,这句话已经变得如此陈腐,我们意识到,我们需要改变某些事情了。

Some simply require a modicum of political courage and a willingness to hear not the hackneyed sloganeering of an increasingly narrow and local political interest, but to heed instead the insistent, consistent and overwhelming voice of the international community, friend and foe alike, and indeed, one's own conscience, compassion and common sense.

有些方面不过需要拿出些许政治勇气和意愿来倾听国际社会、敌友以及实际上是自己的良心、同情心和常识坚持一贯发出的压倒性呼声,而不去聆听宣扬日益狭隘的地方政治利益的陈腐口号。

It's sort of hackneyed.

排序它的陈腐。

The traditional, but somewhat hackneyed approach is to turn the weakness into strength.

最传统也最老套的方法是转弱为强。

The artist avoided hackneyed techniques to maintain originality in her work.

这位艺术家刻意避开那些人云亦云的老套技法,以保持作品的独创性。

His speech was filled with hackneyed phrases that everyone had heard before.

他的发言里充斥着大家早就听腻的老套说辞。

Their presentation was hackneyed, recycling the same old ideas repeatedly.

他们的汇报内容非常老套,只是把老一套的观点又翻来覆去讲了一遍。

She avoided hackneyed expressions to keep her writing fresh and engaging.

为了让文章保持新鲜感和吸引力,她刻意避免使用那些老掉牙的表达。

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