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

• His banal observations on the game.
  他对这场比赛的乏味评论。
• Managers have to show why these and other apparently banal tasks matter.
  管理者必须要说明，为什么这些及其它显然很平凡的工作很重要。
• 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。
• Most financial-planning advice, like most New Year's resolutions, is too complex or too banal.
  大多数财务规划建议就像大多数新年许愿一样，不是太复杂就是太平庸。
• 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。
• The script is utterly banal. It is incredible that human minds can put such muck on to paper.
  这个剧本是十足的平庸之作，难以想象有人会写出这样的垃圾。
• 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。
• 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。
• With children in tow I was planning a more wholesome, though equally as banal, existence.
  因为有孩子跟着，我计划过一种更有益健康，但同样平淡无奇的生活。