"bromidic sermons" "his remarks were trite and commonplace" "hackneyed phrases" "a stock answer" "repeating threadbare jokes" "parroting some timeworn axiom" "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
例句
It is not some timeworn practice integral to the games. 这不是奥运会原始就具有的一部分。
It would be timeworn if I only use Chinese element and it would be involute if I only use Europe element. 完全使用中国的元素会很古板，完全使用欧式的元素会很繁复。
When I found it from school library, the back cover of this timeworn book was missing. The pages are frangible. 当我在校图书馆找到这本陈旧的书时，封底已经不见，泛黄的纸岌岌可危，似乎随时都会碎掉。
Dusted in winter white, a timeworn cypress looms over Long Lake, some 10,000 feet up in the Min Mountains. 在蒙上了一层白色的冬天，一棵老圬的柏树呈现在岷山中约10000英尺（3048米）高处的长海上。
"Fresh flowers add passing beauty to a timeworn street in Old Havana, where 60,000 of the city's two million residents live. 鲜花将短暂的美丽带到了哈瓦那旧城的一条陈旧的街道，在这里，生活着该城两百万居民中的60，000人。
Owing to the low level of medical facilities in the hospitals in China, a great amount of timeworn devices are required to be replaced by new one. 由于我国整体医疗装备水平很低，大量的落后的医疗设备需要更新换代；
