1. They exchanged banalities for a couple of minutes. 他们彼此客套了几分钟。
2. But these banalities are more often designed to allay the fears of the caregiver than those of the patient. 但是这些陈词滥调更多的是用来缓和看护人的恐惧而非病人的恐惧。
3. Some folks may lament the vaunted Information Superhighway being used to transport banalities such as what someone is eating. 一些人可能会对信息高速公路被用来传递某人正在吃什么这类无聊消息感到悲哀。
4. When asked what it meant by pollsters, most struggled, then fell back on such banalities as "the stiff upper lip" and "drinking tea". 当民意测验专家们被问及该定义时，通常也是很犹豫，最后只好打出一些陈词滥调如“僵硬的上嘴唇”和“喝茶”等。
5. My prose will always look so flawless on the screen, but then I read the same words on the physical page and I suddenly see all my clichés and banalities and excesses. 在屏幕上，看起来一切都没问题。而当我在纸质稿上审阅相同的内容时，才会突然意识到文章里的陈词滥调，冗词赘句或哪里太平铺直叙了。
