老生常谈

Triter , tritest1. Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition; hackneyed.

陈腐的，老一套的：因久用或重复而失去引起兴趣的力量的，老生常谈的

You elders of Leeds in your blazers and your brass- fucking- buttons...

和你们那些为了利兹的老生常谈

This may sound cliched, but it is a fact of life.

这虽为老生常谈，却如此确切！

Talk about the poor state of the Chinese language may be cliched. However, an important fact has been overlooked: the environment for the use of Chinese has deteriorated - rather than improved - as a result of more people using it, or the success of the Speak Mandarin Campaign.

华文程度的普遍低落也许是老生常谈的课题，不过，人们忽略一个重要的事实，那就是华文的使用环境趋向恶劣，并没有因讲华语人口的增加，或讲华语运动的成功而获得改善。

Talk about the poor state of the Chinese language may be cliched. However, an important fact has been overlooked: the environment for the use of Chinese has deteriorated - rather than improved - as a result of more people using it, or the succe of the eak Mandarin Campaign.

华文程度的普遍低落也许是老生常谈的课题，不过，人们忽略一个重要的事实，那就是华文的使用环境趋向恶劣，并没有因讲华语人口的增加，或讲华语运动的成功而获得改善。

DALLIANCES between conventional pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology firms are nothing new.

传统制药公司和生物技术公司的亲密关系可谓老生常谈了。

The cheap labor and destructed environment are all clichés.

低廉的劳动力，肆意破坏环境。。。这些都老生常谈了。

The Taiwanese allowed the music to unfold flourish in a rarely noted fashion. Particularly the rather trite funeral march arrested the audience's attention in virtually breathless thrill, and at the conclusion of the last movement, it reaped a wave of thundering applause.

他让音乐难得地发放异彩，尤其那段「老生常谈」的《葬礼进行曲》最后一学章的终结部分，所带来的惊喜，令观众都摒不住气，更赚得如雷的掌声。

Thinking (and the UNHCR's job) broadened under Ruud Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister, who managed in his time (2001-2005) as head of the agency to breathe new life into some old buzzwords: repatriation, reintegration and rehabilitation. Simply put, people who had fled a country because their village had been flattened would now get more help to go back and take up life where they had left off.

原荷兰总理Ruud Lubbers于2001至2005年期间掌管难民署，在其任内，难民署思维得到了拓展，并为原先老生常谈的行话&遣返、重建、复原&注入了新的生命力，简而言之，即由于家园被夷为平地而背井离乡的人能够得到更多的帮助回国，并在原地重建家园。

But there are a couple other tricks to making truisms and generalizations come across as unique to the woman you are talking to.

但是这里有很多的方法和机关能够让老生常谈的一般说辞看上去是那么的独一无二。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。