banal

英 [bə'nɑːl; -'næl] 美 [bə'nɑl]

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※ 提供单词"banal"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

banal 陈腐的

来自词根ban, 说话，命令，词源同phone. 陈腐意来自旧时庄园或村舍常常通知一些家长里短的小事。

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." (see ban (v.)). The modern sense evolved from the word's use in designating things like ovens or mills that belonged to feudal serfs, or else compulsory military service; in either case it was generalized in French through "open to everyone" to "commonplace, ordinary," to "trite, petty."

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1. The allegations ranged from the banal to the bizarre.: 从平淡无奇到离奇百怪的各种说法都有。

5. Bland, banal music tinkled discreetly from hidden loudspeakers.: 隐藏的喇叭里幽幽地传出平淡乏味的音乐。