banal

英 [bəˈnɑːl]

美 [bəˈnɑːl]

adj.  平庸的; 平淡乏味的; 无关紧要的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 平庸的；平淡乏味的；无关紧要的
  very ordinary and containing nothing that is interesting or important

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 平庸的；平淡无奇的
  If you describe something asbanal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
  1. The text is banal...
     课文索然无味。
  2. Bland, banal music tinkled discreetly from hidden loudspeakers.
     隐藏的喇叭里幽幽地传出平淡乏味的音乐。
  3. You can refer to banal things asthe banal.
     平庸的事物；平淡无奇的东西
  4. The allegations ranged from the banal to the bizarre.
     从平淡无奇到离奇百怪的各种说法都有。

英英释义

adj

• repeated too often
  1. bromidic sermons
  2. his remarks were trite and commonplace
  3. hackneyed phrases
  4. a stock answer
  5. repeating threadbare jokes
  6. parroting some timeworn axiom
  7. the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
  Synonym:commonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstock(a)threadbaretimeworntiredtritewell-worn

双语例句

• When you explain poetry, it becomes banal.
  当你解释诗歌的时候，它就变得很平庸。
• And rose above banal social and moral conventions to construct an authentic life.
  并超越陈腐的社会道德传统，而过着自己真正的生活。
• Put like this it sounds banal, though actually it's heresy.
  听起来这好像是老一套，但实际上，这是一种异端学说。
• The lyrics are banal and the rhymes clumsy.
  歌词平淡老套，押韵生硬蹩脚。
• The campus is very flat and the existing classroom building is an out of scale and banal volume.
  小学校园的场地是非常平坦乏味的，教室楼更是一个尺度失常，毫无新意的体量。
• Even with a banal knee-length hem, these have attitude.
  即便是搭配沉闷的及膝裙，这些鞋子也能彰显你的个性。
• His lunatic counterfactual art is more appealing than the banal awfulness of the Reliable Sources.
  他的疯癫的反现实的艺术比从可靠的来源得来的平凡的有威严的消息更能引起我们的兴趣。
• The latest effort is also banal and embarrassing but this time I am reproducing it below.
  最近这次努力也同样平淡无奇且让人难为情，但这一次，我把它复制在下面。
• At that age, I had little wisdom and what some would call a fairly banal Irish Catholic upbringing: my father was a gifted horseman, a raging alcoholic, and a crisis-fomenting tyrant.
  在那个年龄，我有一点智慧和可以被称为一个平凡的爱尔兰天主教徒的抚养：我的父亲是一个天才的骑师，一个疯狂的酗酒者和一个助长危机的暴君。
• To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.
  陈腐的陈腐的或者平凡的；