查询词典 banal

Barack Obama, addressing Chinese and American leaders in July, used not just a banal quotation from Mencius, a Confucian sage, but a punchier one from Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball player:"No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another."

七月份，巴拉克·奥巴马对中美高层演讲时，不仅引用了孔孟二圣令人乏味的语录，还引用中国篮球运动员姚明一句很生动的话：&不管你是新队员还是老队员，你需要花时间不断地调整。&

Barack Obama, addressing Chinese and American leaders in July, used not just a banal quotation from Mencius, a Confucian sage, but a punchier one from Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball player:"No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another."

今年七月，奥巴马在中美两国领导人会面致辞时，不仅引用儒家圣贤孟子的名言，还引用了中国篮球运动员姚明一句强有力的话，&不管你是老队员还是新队员，我们都要相互适应。&

IT HAS become a tedious tradition for Westerners dealing with China to garnish their speeches with wisdom from the Chinese classics. Barack Obama, addressing Chinese and American leaders in July, used not just a banal quotation from Mencius, a Confucian sage, but a punchier one from Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball player:"No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another."

西方人在中国面前，喜欢引用中国传统智慧，这个传统越来越单调乏味。7月，奥巴马在出席中美领导人讲演时，不仅陈旧地引用了一个儒家圣人孟子，而且引用了很有实力的中国篮球运动员姚明：无论你是新人还是旧友，都需要时间以彼此适应。

Aesthetes thought the towers appallingly banal（注:陈腐的;平庸的;乏味的.）."There is a fascination with the towers'ugliness," a Washington Post architecture criticwrote in 1973.Man's tallest buildings to date defy theirsurroundings,man's most wondrous,skyscraping community.

唯美主义者认为这两座楼简直平庸之极。1973年《华盛顿邮报》的一篇建筑评论文章这样写道：这两座塔楼虽然其貌不扬，却也自有迷人之处。

Not in my mind. I imagined the worst. I anticipated burly bald man wearing bandannas, riding around on motorcycles and harassing voters. I pictured a bankrupt candidate, making a banal speech to a bored crowd, and claiming that his bankruptcy would not interfere with his government duties. I even expected the ballot box to be wrapped in barbed wire, with blood dripping from some of the barbs.

我看未必。我做了最坏的打算：我指望看到些戴大手帕的高大秃顶男人，他们骑着摩托车四处骚扰投票者；我想象着一个破产的候选人的样子，人们不耐烦的听着他乏味的演说，他还一面声明破产不会影响他执政；我甚至能看到裹着钢丝网的投票箱，血液正从倒钩上一滴滴落下来。

Not in my mind. I imagined the worst. I anticipated burly bald man wearing bandannas, riding around on motorcycles harassing voters. I pictured a bankrupt candidate, making a banal speech to a bored crowd, claiming that his bankruptcy would not interfere with his government duties. I even expected the ballot box to be wrapped in barbed wire, with blood dripping from some of the barbs.

我看未必。我做了最坏的打算：我指望看到些戴大手帕的高大秃顶男人，他们骑着摩托车四处骚扰投票者；我想象着一个破产的候选人的样子，人们不耐烦的听着他乏味的演说，他还一面声明破产不会影响他执政；我甚至能看到裹着钢丝网的投票箱，血液正从倒钩上一滴滴落下来。

Not in my mind. I imagined the worst. I anticipated burly bald man wearing bandannas, riding around on motorcycles and harassing voters. I imaged a bankrupt candidate, making a banal speech to a bored crowd, and claiming those his bankruptcy will not interfere with his government duties. I even expected the ballot box to be wrapped in barbed wire, with blood dripping from some of the barbs.

我看未必。我做了最坏的打算：我指望看到些戴大手帕的高大秃顶男孩，她们骑着摩托车四处骚扰投票者；我想象着唯一破产的候选人的样子，大部分人不耐烦的听着他乏味的演说，他还一面声明破产不会效果他执政；我甚至能看到裹着钢丝网的投票箱，血液正从倒钩上一滴滴落下来。

But several of the Insights are incredibly vacuous and politically correct, and long stretches of dialogue are banal and cliched.

但是有几个见识却异常空虚和政治上正确的，而长对话是很乏味和陈腐。

And remove the need for "banal handshakes which are not always enthusiastic."

而且这样的话，人们就不需要进行&老套的、通常又不怎么热情的握手了&。

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。&

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。