原级：commonplace
1. Sticks, shadows, reflections in wells, the position of the Sun of what possible importance could such simple matters be But Eratosthenes was a scientist, and his musings on these commonplaces changed the world; in a way, they made the world.
棍棒，影子，井中的倒影，太阳的位置；这每日都在眼前出现的事物，有可能传递什麼重要的讯息呢但Eratosthenes是个科学家，他在平凡事务上的沉思改变了这个世界；或者可说，他的沉思造就了这个世界。
2. Conversation on such an occasion is not expected to soar above polite commonplaces.
不能指望在这种场合的谈话会超越平常的客套。
3. Anyone who still had enough sense of humour to listen objectively to the ensuing dialogue would be staggered by the vast number of commonplaces, misapplied truisms, cliches from newspapers and novels, shop soiled platitudes of every description interspersed with vulgar abuse and brain-splitting lack of logic.
任何还有足够幽默感去客观地聆听这随后谈话的人，会被来自报纸和小说以及用缺乏逻辑的粗俗滥用和大脑分裂点缀的形形色色的老生常谈污染的行话连篇的废话、滥用的自明之理和陈词滥调弄崩溃。
4. They were essentially a negative discussion of the great questions of philosophy and life, directed with consummate skill to the purpose of convincing any one who had merely adopted the commonplaces of received opinion, that he did not understand the subject—that he as yet attached no definite meaning to the doctrines he professed; in order that, becoming aware of his ignorance, he might be put in the way to attain a stable belief, resting on a clear apprehension both of the meaning of doctrines and of their evidence.
那主要是关于哲学上和生活上一些重大问题的一种反面的讨论，有其登峰造极的技巧指导着，目的则在说服那种仅仅采到公认意见的一些陈词滥调的人，叫他知道自己并没有懂得那个题目，叫他知道他对自己所宣奉的教义还没有寓以一定的意义；这样，在他觉悟到自己的无知之后，就能把他放到一条可以达致稳固信仰的道路上，使那信仰站立在对于教义本身以及教义的证据的意义都有一种明白领会的基础上面。
5. Emotional convulsions seemed to have become the commonplaces of her history.
感情上的震动在她的经历中似乎已经司空见惯了。
6. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces.
信念是一种充满活力的力量，它能打破常规的束缚，让平凡陈旧的事物焕然一新。
7. But, looking up at his face in the interchange of the first few commonplaces, she observed a change in it.
两人谈家常时，露西抬起头来望了望他的脸，却发现了他的变化。
8. We exchanged a few commonplaces about our work and the weather.
我们相互寒暄了几句有关工作和天气的套话。
9. His speech was full commonplaces.
他的演讲充满了陈词滥调。