查询词典 banal

Languages are embedded in social worlds, and to the ethnographer is left the larger endeavor of interpreting, or "translating" from one social world to another, a process that Asad reminds us has "since the 1950s become an almost banal description of the distinctive task of social anthropology"(1993:171) Critical to both kinds of translation – word-to-word and bridging different social worlds – but located somewhere in between them is the task of contextualizing key terms within explanations of indigenous cultural domains.

不同的语言来自不同的社会环境，而民族志学家面临的任务就是从一个社会环境，"解析"或"翻译"到另一个社会环境，这个过程是阿萨德(1993：171)称之为："五十年代以来对社会人类学独特的工作所作的近乎陈腐描述"（1993：171）。

Lao Li Night Banquet Series》immitated this design but putting Lao Li at the place of Han Xizai faceing the modern entertainment culture scene even more vulgar and more erosive than that in the times of Han Xizai hand washing replaced by"foot washing", beauties replaced by vulgar girls, wealth and honour replaced by the cheap and the banal. This illustrates the fact that the position and status of the intellectuals has not improved, on the contrary, it is even more embarrassing and hopeless.

老栗夜宴图》模拟的格局，以"老栗"作为现代知识分子的象征，放置在韩熙载的位置，而面对的是比韩熙载时代更低俗、糜烂的现代享乐文化场景，洗手变"洗脚"，美女变俗女，富贵变廉价，对比出中国知识分子的地位和命运，不仅没有改变，反而更尴尬和无奈。

Sterne showed how the insignificant could be utterly significant. Flaubert investigated the banal, the "mysterious power of the pointless". Kafka's novels opened up a yawning "frontier to implausibility". To Mr Kundera, the novel is a liberating force, an enriching power without

斯特恩告诉读者小人物也有十分重要的时刻；福楼拜把笔触伸向庸庸碌碌的生活，揭示毫无意义之举所拥有的神秘力量；卡夫卡的小说则打开了一个无限扩张的非理性世界。

This was not an exhibition for everyone. The banal and irreverent treatm ent of the

这并非为所有的群众所策划的展览，对於此主题陈腐与敬的处

While his inspirational message is banal, the author communicates so lucidly and persuasively that those who enjoyed his first book will undoubtedly find this one equally appealing.

而他的灵感的讯息是很乏味，作者传达如此透彻，有说服力，那些欣赏他的第一本书无疑会觉得这是一个同样感染力。

Lucas agreed to the idea, but Guinness confided in the interview,"What I didn't tell Lucas was that I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo."

卢卡斯接受了这个建议，不过吉尼斯在采访中披露实情"我没告诉卢卡斯我只是不愿继续念那些糟糕透了的乏味台词了，我受够了那些胡言乱语。"

Pablo Neruda: When you explain poetry, it becomes banal.

当你解释诗歌的时候，它就变得很平庸。

The next morning we went about the city as a kind of tourists,Las Vegas under the sunlight was complete death.Most of those who were entertaining themselves all over the night were not yet awake, the extraordinary scenery at night looks like the very raffish and banal stage scene.

第二天上午，我们以旅游者的心态上街逛逛，阳光下的拉斯维加斯竟然一片死寂，通宵达旦娱乐的人们大都还没有醒来，夜晚星光灿烂的景观看上去仿佛舞台布景一般艳俗。

The theme is so banal, he further asserted, that it might be called the triviality of modernity.

这个主题真是陈词滥调，他进一步说道这简直可以说是现代的琐事。

Flags on buildings, the singing of national anthems in schools and at public events, and cheering for national sports teams are all examples of everyday,'banal' nationalism that is often unselfconscious.

旗建筑，唱国歌在学校和公共活动，并欢呼的国家运动队都是日常的例子，'平庸'的民族主义往往是

Hanna: That's over now, isn't it?

都结束了，对吗

You must be ill. You look so pale.

你一定是病了，你的脸色苍白。