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platitudinous adj.平凡的;陳腐的;陳詞濫調式的。 platitud...

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To mr . higginbotham such a dinner was advertisement of his worldly achievement and prosperity , and he honored it by delivering platitudinous sermonettes upon american institutions and the opportunity said institutions gave to any hard - working man to rise - the rise , in his case , which he pointed out unfailingly , being from a grocer s clerk to the ownership of higginbotham s cash store 這頓飯是他事業有成繁榮興旺的廣告。在席上他總要發表一篇老套的說教,夸贊美國的制度和它能給一切肯吃苦的人上進的機會。他總要指出,他就是從一個雜貨店店員上升為希金波坦現金商店的老板的。

Personally , he was an intellectual moralist , and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him , which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic , the metaphysical , the sentimental , and the imitative . a sample of this curious messy mixture he encountered nearer home 他本人是個理性的道德家,而在他眼里他周圍這些人的道德觀卻比大言不慚的陳詞監調更為可厭,那是一種經濟道德形而上學道德傷感主義道德跟人云亦云的道德的妙不盯言的大雜燴。

It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus , an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking , cheap moralizing , and foolish philosophy 它存續至今,是因為讀者欣賞爽身怡心的刺激和不拘謙恭的告誡,它提醒讀者,他們生活的世界里充滿了陳腐的思想意識、低俗的道德說教和愚蠢的哲學理念。

What troubles me most about this is not the workshop or platitudinous questionnaire . it is the dna bit 我最感到苦惱的還不是研討班,也不是這種陳腐的問卷調查,而是機構dna這碼事。