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平凡的,陈腐的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Banal \Ban"al\, a. [F., fr. ban an ordinance.]
Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
资料来源 : WordNet®
banal
adj 1: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace
prose" [syn: {commonplace}, {trivial}]
2: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
"hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating
threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the
trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: {commonplace}, {hackneyed},
{old-hat}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn},
{tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]