banality

英 [bəˈnæləti]

美 [bəˈnæləti]

n.  平庸; 平淡乏味; 陈腐的事物; 陈词滥调

复数：banalities　

BNC.20540 / COCA.20303

牛津词典

noun

• 平庸；平淡乏味；陈腐的事物；陈词滥调
  the quality of being banal ; things, remarks, etc. that are banal
  1. the banality of modern city life
     现代城市生活的单调乏味
  2. They exchanged banalities for a couple of minutes.
     他们彼此客套了几分钟。

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

noun

• a trite or obvious remark
  Synonym:platitudeclichecommonplacebromide

双语例句

• Banality weakens our intellectual, spiritual and ethical muscles, rendering us flabby thinkers, unable or unwilling to chew over the difficult matter of experience and make it part of us.
  平庸削弱我们的智力、精神乃至伦理力量，把我们塑造成有气无力的思考者，没有能力或不愿意咀嚼经验中艰涩的事物，并使之成为我们的一部分。
• He couldn't believe the banality of the question.
  他无法相信那问题竟如此陈腐。
• The banality of the final line spoiled the whole poem.
  诗的最后一句过于庸俗以至破坏了全诗的美感。
• The connection between the banality of evil and the evil of banality is the danger of a surrender of our human powers of discrimination.
  平庸之恶与恶之平庸之间的联系正是人类放弃判断能力的危险。
• Its superficiality and banality could be interpreted as a critique of shopping.
  它的肤浅和平庸可能被解释为一个购物的批判。
• Lu the banality of life during wartime: a soldier wakes up in the morning to see compatriots shooting prisoners, then rejoices in the afternoon when he drinks a bowl of red bean soup.
  这些文字告诉陆川战争时的生活琐事：一个士兵早上醒来看见他的同胞射杀战俘，而在下午为喝了一碗红豆汤而欣喜不已。
• Faust was created because Goethe had been struggling between banality and greatness or between compromise and rebellion in his life.
  浮士德是歌德一生都在庸俗与伟大、妥协与叛逆的两极之间痛苦摇摆的产物。
• But the banality of your own life is very real to you.
  但是平凡的生活对你言却是很真实。
• The paper expounds the methods about improve quality of gangue sintering brick from the technology of purgation homogeneity banality.
  本文从净化均化陈化工艺方面阐述了提高煤矸石烧结砖质量的措施。
• Then, the paper discusses the transformation of Arendt 'sthoughts on evil, which changes from "the radical evil" to "the banality of evil" aswell as the relationship between them.
  接着，论文讨论了阿伦特关于恶的思想变化的转折，即从根本的恶到平庸的恶的转变及两者关系。