The text is banal.

这篇文章乏味得很。

The lyrics of the song are embarrassingly banal.

那首歌的歌词庸俗得让人尴尬。

For example, in the highly successful science-fiction film 2001, little dialogue was evident, and most of it was banal and of little intrinsic interest.

例如，在非常成功的科幻电影《2001》中，对话少之又少，而且大部分都是陈词滥调，没有什么内在的趣味。

Its psychological insight is banal.

它对心理层面的表述陈腐平庸。

Perfectly banal, perhaps.

完美的平庸，或许是吧。

In any other country, this message might seem banal.

在任何其他国家看来，他这次拜访可能在平常不过了。

A banal landscape of ugly new towers flanks both sides.

马路两遍的是平凡丑陋的新摩天大楼的景象。

I know it sounds banal, but it makes a huge difference.

我知道这听起来有点陈腐，但它使一个巨大的差别。

It's great news for me, but it's also something very banal.

对我而言这是个好消息，同时也觉得再普通不过。

I have various banal symptoms which you can see for yourself.

我的一些琐碎普通的症状，你自己可以看出。

These are only some banal remarks, but they have much philosophy.

虽然这些只是一些平常话，但里面却含有许多哲理。

The explanation is banal: Young men have more strength and more to gain.

这个解释非常老调：年轻人力量更大，利益也更大。

To casual browsers, most of the resulting content is, unsurprisingly, banal.

对于偶尔来的访客而言，多数内容都很枯燥，这并不令人感到意外。

Today, it's hard to believe liberation or aesthetic renewal can lie in something so banal.

今天，很难相信平庸事物中的性解放或美学复兴。

If our aim is to over-achieve, we need to avoid the same banal influences and think impossibly.

假使我们的目标是超越前人的功绩，就要拒绝平庸而不去想什么不可能。

The campus is very flat and the existing classroom building is an out of scale and banal volume.

小学校园的场地是非常平坦乏味的，教室楼更是一个尺度失常，毫无新意的体量。

This sounds pretty banal but you'd be surprised how often people fail to heed this standard advice.

这听起来很老套，但你会吃惊地发现人们是多么容易忽视这条放之四海而兼准的好建议。

I told her the banal truths about my wife that embarrassed me as soon as the words were out of my mouth.

我告诉她我妻子无趣的事实，话一出口，我便感到难堪。

The policy-related passages in “The Audacity of Hope”, his second autobiography, are scattershot and banal.

在他第二部自传中于政策相关的章节，仍然显得漫无目的并且老套。

The film could then be embedded into otherwise banal correspondence as punctuation at the end of a sentence.

胶片会被做成句子末尾的标点，植入再普通不过的书信中。

Those familiar only with the banal 20th-century examples made for the tourist trade are in for a happy surprise.

那些对20世纪事件很熟悉的人来说，这些玩意仅仅是旅行者商贸上的快乐惊喜。

Some recommendations under this head are banal: one is that George Bush keep in touch with Iraq's prime minister.

还有另一些乏味的建议，如布什和伊拉克首相保持联系。

These were familiar concerns, basic and banal, but Wasserstein transformed them into resonant entertainment and, occasionally, art.

这些都是常见的忧虑，基本而平凡，但瓦瑟斯坦却把它们转化成了和谐的娱乐，偶尔颇为巧妙。

She has almost 100,000 hours of video showing utterly banal scenes—people channel-surfing, fighting over the remote control and napping.

她已经看了将近100000小时乏味的录像——人们换台、抢台以及打瞌睡。

She has almost 100, 000 hours of video showing utterly banal scenes-people channel-surfing, fighting over the remote control and napping.

她已经看了将近100000小时乏味的录像——人们换台、抢台以及打瞌睡。

It sounds almost banal to say, [but] it's a really big world out there, and the United States has responsibilities practically everywhere.

听起来像是陈词滥调，[但]这世界实在太大了，而美国的职责几乎无处不在。

Nonetheless, his testimony – with its credibly banal account of life on board the Arctic Sea – blows a hole in the official version of events.

然而，他的陈述——详实可靠地描述了“北冰洋”号船上的普通生活——却给官方的版本捅了娄子。

When the question comes from the woolliest corners of the Chinese Web, as it often does, it is framed as an accusation, and a banal one at that.

在中国互联网的犄角旮旯经常会看到这种老掉牙的质问，往往都是用来骂人。