英语词汇太少？跟我 一起学词源吧！12-07

大家好，我又回来啦！今天开门见山，学习新词！

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5.概念 unoriginal

Some people are completely lacking in orinality and imagination,and their talk shows it. Everything they say is trite, hackneyed, commonplace,humorless-their speach pattern are full of clichés and stereotypes, their phraseology is without sparkle.

The adjective for this is banal

大家记不记得小时候学校开运动会，总会有学校领导会在台上演讲一番，每次都把我们听得昏昏欲睡，陈词滥调的讲话对我们来说就是一场煎熬。

对应的形容词是banal。

banal  [bə'nɑl] 请读出声来

adj. 陈腐的；平庸的；老一套的

Now tell me, do banal speakers show a great deal of originality?

Maybe you have heard enough banal speaches given by the principals of Middle schools and thought you could finally be free from such torturing experiences after graduation. However, you'll find yourself listening to the same banal talks  from your boss.

我猜很多人看到这里时，并没有把第一段英文仔细看下来，而是跳过看中文了。那么现在请大家离开自己的舒适区，逼自己去仔细阅读第一段英文.......

好的，你们现在应该能发现，banal有好几个近义词，例如

trite

heckneyed

commonplace

这些都表示陈腐的，平庸的形容词；

而代表陈词滥调的名词有

cliché

stereotype

能记住吗？

还有关于phraseology这个单词，是由phrase+ology组成的，关于ology这个后缀，其实大有文章可讲，下周再和大家一起学习啦。

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最后感谢一直关注这个栏目的简友们。人总会懈怠，但你们是我回来的原因。

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