1. 陈腐的:hackney 乘用马 | hackneyed 陈腐的 | hacksaw 钢锯
2. 不新奇的/常见的/陈腐的:hackmatack /落叶松之一种/ | hackneyed /不新奇的/常见的/陈腐的/ | hacksaw /可锯金属的弓形锯/钢锯/
3. 不新奇的:hackney 酷使 | hackneyed 不新奇的 | hackneyed 常见的
4. 常见的:hackneyed 不新奇的 | hackneyed 常见的 | hacksaw 钢锯
1. (语句、画面等)陈腐的,陈词滥调的
If you describe something such as a saying or an image as hackneyed, you think it is no longer likely to interest, amuse or affect people because it has been used, seen, or heard many times before.
e.g. Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
权力导致腐败,绝对权力导致绝对腐败。这虽是老生常谈,但却是真理。
e.g. ...hackneyed postcard snaps of lochs and glens.
老掉牙的苏格兰湖泊峡谷风景照片
1. Wonder what the Greek words are for corny, hackneyed and flat.
2. Gunn has written some awfully hackneyed small town hick characters with little attention to detail, and fed them lines mostly consisting of cursing in progressively more unimaginative ways.
adj
1. hackneyed
1. repeated too often
overfamiliar through overuse
e.g. 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'
Synonym: banal commonplace old-hat shopworn stock(a) threadbare timeworn tired trite well-worn