trite是什么意思，trite怎么用
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📰 外刊例句
If you had to identify the most important person in your organisation, there is an obvious answer, a trite -and-untrue answer and a wrong-but-useful answer. 如果要问你公司里谁最重要，会有一个显而易见的答案、一个老套且不真实的答案，和一个是错误但有用的答案。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[adjective] (of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse
[形容词] （指言论或想法）缺乏独创性或新鲜感的；因过度使用而变得乏味的
💡 深入解读
从词源上来看， trite 是一个与小站（微信公众号：田间小站）推送过的contrite同源的单词，两者都源自于拉丁语terere（摩擦、磨损）。其中， trite 最早于16世纪40年代由terere的过去分词tritus（本义指“磨薄的、用旧的、经常被踩踏的”，引申指“常用的、熟悉的、普通的”）进入英语，相应用来表示“老生常谈的、陈腐的、老一套的”，主要适用于因长期过度使用而变得陈旧老套的事物，常意味着缺乏独创性、新鲜感、诚意或给人留下深刻印象的能力
Your alibi is pretty trite.你的托辞实在不怎么新鲜。
The movie is teeming with obvious and trite ideas.这部电影充斥着平铺直叙的陈腐观点。
The simple concepts he had been taught now sounded trite and naive.他曾经被教导的简单观念如今听起来陈腐而幼稚。
📚 名著用例
Don't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them on trite transient objects. 不要那么苦苦依恋肉体的关系，把你的坚毅和热诚留给一项适当的事业，不要将它浪费在平凡而短暂的事情上。
— 出自《英国女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特（Charlotte Brontë）创作的具有自传色彩的长篇小说《简·爱》（ Jane Eyre ）。》
🔍 同近义词
- banal: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring
- cliched: showing a lack of originality; based on frequently repeated phrases or opinions
- hackneyed: (of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite
