| 1. | I have erred against every commonplace notion of decorum .
我违悖各种旧礼节的陈腐见解因而犯了错误。 |
| 2. | It was an obsolete thing, and few cared to study it .
它本是一件老朽陈腐的东西，很少有人愿意去研究它。 |
| 3. | I abhor every commonplace phrase by which wit is intended .
我厌恶所有那些力图表现智慧的陈腐不堪的俗话。 |
| 4. | His civilities were worn out, like his information .
他那一套礼貌举止，也象他的出言吐语一样，已经陈腐不堪。 |
| 5. | His frequent use of cliches made his essay seem banal .
由于他反复使用这些陈腐的题材，所以他的文章味同嚼蜡。 |
| 6. | The teaching methods and learning techniques are rusty, cranky and antiquated .
教学方法和学习方法是陈腐、呆板而过时的。 |
| 7. | The stale literary phrase showed that the man had been educated at a mission school .
从这句陈腐的比喻可以知道，这个人曾在教会学校念过书。 |
| 8. | It was a platitude to maintain the fiction that he was conferring a great boon on me .
这是一种陈腐的老生常谈，旨在维护似乎他给了我极大恩惠的假象。 |
| 9. | Much of the work of social scientists studying crime and delinquency leads to the debunking of common place myths .
研究犯罪和违法的社会科学家作了许多工作，从而证明了一些陈腐说法的谬误。 |
| 10. | The defense department generally defended its existing programs, though the rationale for them was growing threadbare .
一般来说，国防部总是为自己的现有计划辩护，尽管这些计划的论据已日益陈腐。 |
