What troubles me most about this is not the workshop or platitudinous questionnaire . it is the dna bit 我最感到苦恼的还不是研讨班，也不是这种陈腐的问卷调查，而是机构dna这码事。
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It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus , an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking , cheap moralizing , and foolish philosophy 它存续至今，是因为读者欣赏爽身怡心的刺激和不拘谦恭的告诫，它提醒读者，他们生活的世界里充满了陈腐的思想意识、低俗的道德说教和愚蠢的哲学理念。
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Personally , he was an intellectual moralist , and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him , which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic , the metaphysical , the sentimental , and the imitative . a sample of this curious messy mixture he encountered nearer home 他本人是个理性的道德家，而在他眼里他周围这些人的道德观却比大言不惭的陈词监调更为可厌，那是一种经济道德形而上学道德伤感主义道德跟人云亦云的道德的妙不盯言的大杂烩。
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To mr . higginbotham such a dinner was advertisement of his worldly achievement and prosperity , and he honored it by delivering platitudinous sermonettes upon american institutions and the opportunity said institutions gave to any hard - working man to rise - the rise , in his case , which he pointed out unfailingly , being from a grocer s clerk to the ownership of higginbotham s cash store 这顿饭是他事业有成繁荣兴旺的广告。在席上他总要发表一篇老套的说教，夸赞美国的制度和它能给一切肯吃苦的人上进的机会。他总要指出，他就是从一个杂货店店员上升为希金波坦现金商店的老板的。
