英:[bə'nɑ:lɪ]
美:[bə'nɑlɪ]
英:[bə'nɑ:lɪ]
美:[bə'nɑlɪ]
adjective
lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite
borrowed from French, "pertaining to a feudal lord's right to extract usage fees for mills, ovens, etc., within his jurisdiction, available for general use, ordinary, commonplace, trite," going back to Old French bannel "subject to a feudal lord's jurisdiction, of seigneurial authority," borrowed from Medieval Latin bannālis, banālis "ordered by a ban, invested with public authority," from bannus, bannum "order given by a public authority, authority, jurisdiction" (borrowed from Old Low Franconian *banna- "call to arms by a lord") + Latin -ālis -al >entry 1 — more at ban >entry 2
The first known use of banal was in 1825
banditnoun
a person who lives by stealing and often as a member of a band : robber, outlaw
banditnoun
a person who lives by stealing and often as a member of a band : robber, outlaw
bandicootnoun
any of various small insect-eating and plant-eating marsupial mammals especially of Australia
bandboxnoun
a usually round box of paperboard or thin wood often used for storing a hat
bandannanoun
a large handkerchief usually with a colorful design printed on it
bandage1 of 2noun
a strip of fabric used especially to cover and bind up wounds and as a means of applying healing medicines or ointments
bandage2 of 2verb
to bind or cover with a bandage
banananoun
a treelike tropical plant with large leaves and flower clusters that develop into a bunch of finger-shaped fruit which are usually yellow when ripealso: its fruit
banaladjective
not original, fresh, or exciting : stale, commonplace
1 常见地
2 平凡
run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless humdrum second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden mundanely trivialism mediocrity platitude banality triviality mundanity commonness homeliness bathos stodginess prosiness trivialize ten a penny two a penny old hat
3 平凡地