banal
banal 英 [bəˈnɑ:l] 美 [bəˈnæl, ˈbenəl, bəˈnɑl]
adj. 陈腐的；平庸的；老一套的
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- If something is boring and unoriginal, it's banal. Banal things are dull as dishwater.
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- adj. 陈腐的；平庸的；老一套的
- banal (adj.) "trite, commonplace," 1840, from French banal, "belonging to a manor; common, hackneyed, commonplace," from Old French banel "communal" (13c.), from ban "decree; legal control; announcement; authorization; payment for use of a communal oven, mill, etc.," from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *bannan "to speak publicly, used of different kinds of proclamations (see ban (v.)).
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