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61. | These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework. |
| 这是我母亲过去的老生常谈,那时我要学拉丁语,还要打扫自己房间,呆在家里做作业. |
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62. | The trite objects of human efforts--possessions,outward success,luxury--have always seemed to me contemptible. |
| 至于那些老生常谈的人生目标,诸如物质占有、功成名就、舒适享受等等,在我看来都不值一顾。 |
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63. | Platitude陈词滥调, try replacing it with" claim" and you will see that the sentence is OK. |
| 很难看到有什么实质内容能证明“选举代表了民意”这种陈词滥调。 |
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64. | If the theme were hackneyed, I should be obliged to deal gently with the reader. |
| 假如这是个老生常谈的题目,我只消向读者轻描淡写一番就行了。 |
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65. | To use a time-honored cliche, let's together make road safety the responsibility of everyone in Singapore! |
| 最后,我们应该提醒自己,"公路安全,人人有责",这虽然是老生常谈,却有它的积极意义。 |
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66. | To say that Pablo Picasso dominated Western art in the20 th century is, by now, the merest commonplace. |
| 现在你说毕加索是20世纪西方艺术最了不起的人物,只是老生常谈。 |
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67. | It' s the same old story : everybody wants the house tidy, but nobody wants to tidy it himself. |
| 还是老生常谈的事: 谁都想让房子整洁, 可谁也不愿意亲自整理. |
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68. | Some said that his words were commonplace, others complained of his want of theological doctrine. |
| 有的人说,他的话都是老生常谈,可还有的人抱怨他没有神学上的主义。 |
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69. | It defines sublimity with platitude. |
| 母爱是世界上最普通又最伟大的情感,它会使平凡变得崇高。 |
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70. | 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 |
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