滥调

He delivered a long prose full of platitudes.

他发表了一篇充满词调的文章。

The fashionable remarks of today often become the commonplace expressions of tomorrow.

今天的时髦话往往变成明天的词调。

Making banal remarks was one of his bad habits.

他的坏习惯之一就是喜欢些词调。

He was mouthing the usual platitudes about the need for more compassion.

他不由衷地些需要更加同情之类的腔调。

The speaker seems to have no original ideas; his speech was full of platitudes.

"演讲似乎没有什么独到的见解,他的讲话充满了词调。"

She challenges the cliche that women are more indirect than men and that tentativeness reflects a lack of confidence。

们常女不如男直接，犹豫不决表示缺乏信心，她就是要向这种词调挑战。