陈腐的

Entomology was a cleaner science than ichthyology, but the example of the Professor, who had unhesitatingly plunged to the bottom of the jar to produce the fish, was infectious; and though this alcohol had a "very ancient and fishlike smell," I really dared not show any aversion within these sacred precincts, and treated the alcohol as though it were pure water.

昆虫学这门科学比鱼类学干净，可教授没半点犹豫就伸手探入罐底捞出了鱼，他的榜样颇具感染力。尽管酒精散发着一种"陈腐的鱼腥味"，我却不敢在这神圣的场所流露出丝毫厌恶，只能把酒精当作纯净水对待。

The 1980s, and also rescued a handful of rather fusty British luxury brands. So the arrival of a newsupply of Asian tourists, this time from China, is arousing some excitement.

日本游客带着大量的日元现金卡在80年代重塑了英国的旅游业，并拯救了一大批陈腐的英国奢侈品牌。

Dull＝stale＝hackneyed＝commonplace＝insipid＝trite＝vapid＝jejune

K 模棱两可特点是含糊的＝陈词滥调的特点是陈腐的

Your Inner Fish is, perhaps, a rather trite title for such a magisterial work.

也许对于一本如此权威的著作来说，《你体内的鱼》是一个比较陈腐的标题。

True, they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the patten of an outworn tradition.

没错，他们曾尝试，但他们的努力都投在彭定康的陈腐的传统。

Had a preference for circumlocutious rather than forthright expression; A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.

转弯抹角而不是直接表达的偏好；对陈腐的诗风作迂回冗长的研究，/让人仍然苦思冥想、无法忍受/让人仍然觉得废话连篇、诸多歧义。

There is a long list of flyblown metaphors which could similarly be got rid of if enough people would interest themselves in the job; and it should also be possible to laugh the "not un" formation out of existence, to reduce the amount of Latin and Greek in the average sentence, to drive out foreign phrases and strayed scientific words, and, in general, to make pretentiousness unfashionable.?

如果人们有兴趣，完全可以用同样方法把这一长列陈腐的比喻用法去除掉；也有可能使not un？结构不复存在，或减少一般句子中拉丁和希腊语的用量，或清除外国说法和语意不清的科学术语，总之，要使矫情做作，自命不凡变得不再时髦。？

And they loved me too much to let some old prejudice tear our family apart.

而他们对我的爱，使他们决心不让陈腐的偏见离间我们家的人。

His writing contains little that is new or startling and much that is old and even trite.

他的作品几乎没有创新和令人惊奇，却有很多古老的甚至陈腐的东西。

To make up, construct, or develop in an artificial, unoriginal, or stereotypic manner.

预先编制，预先准备用人工的、普通的或陈腐的模式去制造、建构或发展

On closer examination, though, this is not a vote for multilateralism but just the opposite.

仔细审视后我们发现，这并非是对多边主义投出的赞成票，而是恰好相反。

Uncovering their weak spots, so I can defeat them.

揭露出他们的弱点，这样我就可以打败他们了。