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the banality of [noun phrase]
表示‘...的平庸’，多指抽象品质。
The banality of modern life often goes unnoticed.
现代生活的平庸常常被忽视。
平庸；陈腐；平庸的事物
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
平庸；陈腐；平庸的事物
the quality or an instance of being banal
The banality of modern life often goes unnoticed.
现代生活的平庸常常被忽视。
平庸；陈腐
The quality of being banal.
陈词滥调
a trite or obvious remark
平庸之物；陈词滥调
Something which is banal.
The critic dismissed the film for its sheer banality.
评论家因影片极其平庸而对其不屑一顾。
She was tired of the banalities of small talk at parties.
她厌倦了派对上闲聊时的那些陈词滥调。
His speech was full of banality and offered no new insights.
他的演讲满是陈词滥调，没有提供任何新见解。
表示‘...的平庸’，多指抽象品质。
The banality of modern life often goes unnoticed.
现代生活的平庸常常被忽视。
指具体的陈腐言论，可数名词。
He filled the conversation with a banality about the weather.
他用一句关于天气的陈词滥调填满了对话。
可数名词复数形式。
The speech was full of banalities that bored the audience.
演讲充满了陈词滥调，让观众感到厌烦。
Not this
This is a banality statement.
Use this
This is a banal statement.
banality是名词，不能作定语修饰名词；应使用其形容词形式banal。
Not this
He said banality at the meeting.
Use this
He said a banality at the meeting.
当指具体的陈腐言论时，banality是可数名词，需加冠词a。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
彻底的平庸；十足的陈腐
The sheer banality of the dialogue made the film impossible to sit through.
对话极其平庸，让人无法坐着看完这部电影。
平庸之恶（指邪恶因缺乏思考而显得寻常）
Arendt's phrase "the banality of evil" remains deeply influential.
阿伦特的“平庸之恶”一说至今影响深远。
令人麻木的陈腐；使人昏昏欲睡的平庸
The mind-numbing banality of the lecture put half the students to sleep.
讲座令人昏昏欲睡的平庸内容让一半学生都睡着了。
日常生活中的平庸琐事
He tried to capture the banalities of everyday life in his photographs.
他试图在照片中捕捉日常生活的平庸琐碎。
说客套话；互道陈词滥调
They exchanged banalities about the weather while waiting for the meeting to start.
他们在等待会议开始时说了些关于天气的客套话。
诉诸陈词滥调；只好说老生常谈
When he ran out of ideas, the writer resorted to banalities.
作家想不出点子时，就只好用一些陈词滥调。
平庸之恶
The documentary explores the banality of evil in totalitarian systems.
这部纪录片探讨了极权体制中平庸之恶的现象。
日常生活的平庸
He found escape from the banality of everyday life in his weekend hikes.
他在周末远足中逃离日常生活的平庸。
平庸之恶。
Hannah Arendt coined the phrase 'the banality of evil' to describe how ordinary people can carry out horrific acts without a sense of personal guilt.
汉娜·阿伦特创造了“平庸之恶”这一说法，用来描述普通人如何可能在无个人负罪感的情况下实施可怕的行为。
Use banality naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
记忆联想：banal（平凡的、平庸的）加名词后缀 -ity，banality 就是‘平庸陈腐’、老生常谈。
语域：formal 常见场景：文学/文化评论、哲学/社会评论、正式演讲或写作 这个名词多用于书面语和正式评论中，如文学批评、哲学讨论或演讲；日常口语里较少单独使用，若要表达“陈词滥调”，更常说 cliché。
通常用单数，但也可用复数形式 banalities 表示多个陈腐之言。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.