老生常谈

This brand of scepticism is not new.

这样的怀疑已经是老生常谈了。

Key to this investigation is the relationship between reality and simulacre: does what emerges from the movies – convictions and conventions, clichés, folk culture – match China self-perceptions?

了解现实与影像彼此关系的关键是：从电影浮现的信念、约定俗成、老生常谈及民间文化是否符合中国人的自我认知？

Now what Stravinsky did in the Rite of Spring was not to take away the underpinning, but to remove any sense of predictable repetition.

在《春之祭》中斯特拉文斯基并没有将支撑物抽走，而仅仅是移动了一下那些老生常谈的重复因素。

But after the suffragette movement brought women greater freedom at the beginning of the 20th century, it became a clich in financial circles to note that hemlines moved in the same direction as stock prices: upwards, for example, in the 1920s, 1960s and mid-1980s and downwards in the 1930s, 1940s and mid-1970s.

但是，当20世纪初妇女参政运动为女性带来更多的自由之后，金融圈里便开始流行这样的老生常谈：女人裙边的高低和股价走向一致。例如上世纪20年代、60年代和80年代中期往上调；上世纪30年代、40年代和70年代中期往下行。

Our affection for him needs no threadbare explanation.

我们对他的爱戴不需要作老生常谈的说明。

This is old ground to an extent, and has been covered extensively by Tomkins, among others, but the fact remains that Rafa has missed out on many of his first-choice targets due to a lack of funds, had nothing to spend last summer (when player sales are taken into account) and should not be realistically expected to mount a title challenge with the fifth most expensive team in the league.

这算是老生常谈了，而且汤姆金斯等人也多次就此作出过辩论，由于资金的匮乏，贝尼特斯已经多次退而求其次，眼睁睁地看着很多自己的第一选择被别的球队拿更大额的支票挖走，而今年夏天球队更是实现了转会盈利，看看资产净值仅排名联赛第5的这支球队，要求他一直围绕着冠军发起冲击是否合理？

I don't want tot sound like a broken record.

我不想让自己总是重复这些老生常谈的话

It is so trite, I know, but I must say it anyway. I have to say it.

有一句话有些老生常谈，我知道，但我无论如何还是要说，我不得不说。

It's a trite saying, but there's some truth here.

虽说是老生常谈，但确实有一定的道理。

The fact that you are here is evidence that you care about security, and as trite as it may sound, this is the most important step.

你现在在看这本书的事实，说明了你关心安全问题，虽然就和听起来一样老生常谈，这是最重要的步骤。

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。