陈腐

It is time for leaders to bury their caste loyalty and anachronistic niceties and buy more talent in.

领导者们应该摒弃愚忠于某种血统和拘泥于某一阶层的陈腐观念，购入更多人才，这才是当务之急。

They enjoy the comfort and banal luxury of their dwelling.

他们享受着住所的舒适感和陈腐的奢侈。

Chris' banal advice was no help to us in solving our problem.

克里斯陈腐的劝告对于解决我们的问题完全没有帮助。

I'm utterly bored of the sameness and the banality that goes on around me.

我极度讨厌相似并且陈腐的东西围绕着我。

The worst kind of fashion disaster is banality and conformity.

最可怕的时装灾难是陈腐和千篇一律，讲求政治式的正确是无聊的最大成因。

In a broad horizon, we need the 'Starbucks 's to stimulate our national service, by bringing competition and eliminating banality.

广阔天地里，我们需要星巴克们来刺激中国自己的服务业，把竞争带来，把陈腐赶走。

A century ago, Edith Wharton enlivened her novels with dozens of bright, if now obsolete, observations about petticoats, leather-bound books and the graceful sway of a C-spring barouche.

一个世纪以前，伊迪丝·沃顿就通过对裙子、皮封书籍以及弓形弹簧四轮马车的优雅摆动的不厌其烦的机灵观察而使她的小说十分生动，虽然现在看来有些陈腐不堪。

The rising chaos is being permitted both to form a smoke screen to befuddle the dark and to bring you to a point that allows an exodus from this outworn reality.

不断上升的混乱形成迷惑的烟雾，你要认识到这一点，脱离陈腐。

For Bierce, Christianity was an antiquated superstition with no place in the modern world.

对比尔斯来说，基督教是在现代世界毫无立足之地的陈腐迷信。

All this is a long way from ethnic lobbying of the old school, in which people from country A are persuaded to use their votes to tilt their new homeland's policies and make them less favourable to country B, their ancient bugbear.

某个文化群体要想说服陈腐的学派常常是有很长的路要走，比如，来自A国家的人被说服用他们的选票使其新国家的政策发生倾斜，并且对他们古时的怪物B国家不利一些。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失