Why couldn't he say something original instead of spouting the same old platitudes?
他为什么就不能讲些有新意的话，而不是喋喋不休地说些老生常谈呢？
柯林斯高阶英语词典
...a stream of platitudes, outlining many problems but offering few solutions.
概述了很多问题、但几乎没有提出解决办法的一串陈词滥调
柯林斯高阶英语词典
This is a platitude, but also the most important.
这是老生常谈了, 但也是最重要的.
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This is really a platitude and different people have different views question.
这实在是[老生常谈]而且[见仁见智]的问题.
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This sounds like a platitude, but I'll never forget my father telling me that.
这话听起来似乎是老生常谈, 但我永远都不会忘记父亲给我这则忠告的情景.
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It's a platitude for the reform of pharmaceutical commercial circulation system. "
医药商业流通体制改革是一个 老生常谈 的话题.
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Zhou Hongxiang: It's a platitude.
周弘湘: 这是一个老生常谈的问题.
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In fact, the noise problem is a platitude, but is not a good solution for.
实际上, 噪音问题是老生常谈的问题了, 但是解决的并不好.
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In modern life nothing produces such a platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
现代生活里,没有一样东西能赶上一句恰当的陈词滥调那样,让四海升平,亲如一家.
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Manipulation by the vested interests of the academic, the status quo can only be a platitude.
由既得利益者操控的学术, 只能是维持现状的老生常谈.
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Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude.
好的老生常谈最管用.
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APPLAUSE, n . The echo of a platitude.
掌声: 陈词滥调的回音.
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The talk is no more than a platitude.
这番话无非是老生常谈.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
This was such a mere platitude go without saying.
这不过是老生常谈,不用说也明白.
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A fellow comes out with some insignificant platitude when I am speaking with my whole heart.
一个人散布枯燥乏味的陈腔滥调时,而我正全心全力地演说.
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Business management, this is the topic of a platitude.
企业治理, 这是一个老生常谈的话题.
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Some would say that this is a platitude.
有人会认为这是陈腔滥调.
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'someone must have told you that. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself.
" 也许有人对你说过这话了, 你自己决不会想出这种陈腔滥调来的.
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The General was showing him that he wasn't superior to the platitude either.
将军的本意也正是要叫他明白,他也一样跳不出这些老调的圈圈.
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Applause is the echo of a platitude.
掌声是一种单调的回音.
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Real love is not a platitude ; nor is love a fantasy; nor is love lust.
真正的爱并不是一句 陈词滥调 ,爱不是幻相, 爱也不是贪欲.
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I am the champion of the platitude.
我是这种老生常谈的冠军.
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But this is just a reassuring platitude.
但这不过是用来安慰人的陈词滥调.
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Circle of Friends for the elderly this is a platitude.
对于老圈友来说这是老生常谈.
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It's no more than a platitude.
无非是老生常谈.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
It was a platitude to maintain the fiction that he a great boon on me.
这是一种陈腐的老生常谈,旨在维护似乎他给了我极大恩惠的假象.
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His speech is full of platitude.
他的讲话充满了陈词滥调。
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