hackneyed [ˈhæknid]

例句:

• This article is rather hackneyed.
  这篇文章写得太呆板.
  
• Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
  权力导致腐败，绝对权力导致绝对腐败。这虽是老生常谈，但却是真理。
  
• The hackneyed phrase came unintended to his lips.
  他顺口说了这句老掉牙的套话。
  
• But despite the occasional hackneyed potboiler, this stuff works.
  来自BBC
• I found Titanic to be uninteresting with a hackneyed and unconvincing story.
  来自WSJ
• Two of the most insistently reproduced, not to say hackneyed, images.
  来自D. Piper