Being too diplomatic is safer, unless it devolves into insincere platitudes.

说话过于圆滑安全，除非说的话成了不真诚的陈词滥调。

But you can't know what the future will be-it may or may not be better " later." Omniscient platitudes aren't helpful.

但是你不知道未来会是什么样子-它可能会变得好，也可能不会。全知式的陈词滥调没什么帮助。

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception.

尽管我们说了许陈词滥调，但自欺仍然是最难的欺骗。

In the times I've not wanted to stay, I have been showered with familiar platitudes.

在我不想留下来的时候，我被熟悉的陈词滥调淹没了。

" As I see it, it is going to be more platitudes, more instruments being created, more committees being set up, but nothing really there on the ground, in terms of both countries being satisfied with something substantive and hefty."

“在我看来像是陈词滥调，不过是出炉法律文件，建的委员会，但没有任何实质性的内容，两无法得到实质性的巨大的满足。”

She called the HFPA's plan nothing but false " platitudes" .

称HFPA的计划只不过是虚假的" 陈词滥调" 。

Sometimes the book gives you answers, but not always, and I didn't want to leave the readers who had followed me through hundreds of pages with nothing but some empty platitude I didn't believe myself.

有时候书本告诉你答案，有的时候却不能。我又不想给跟随我好几百页一路看完的读者留下一段陈词滥调，用连我自己不相信的空话作结。

Marking a sharp deviation from the company's platitude of enabling " healthy conversation" , Mr Musk tweeted: " Twitter speaks to the inner masochist in all of us."

“推特会与我们所有人内心中的那个受虐狂对话。”这与该公司实现“健康对话”的陈词滥调大相径庭。

" We're always looking out – we don't want to be left behind, " she noted, and for an MD in a different industry, that might scan as a perfectly acceptable platitude.

“我们总是在向前看——我们不想落在后面，”指出，对于一个不同行业的总经理来说，这可能是一个可以完全接受的陈词滥调。

So he pulled up a stool beside his inanimate love and began to recite platitudes, and then when he thought she seemed to get bored of those he started telling stories.

于是，他拉过一张凳子坐在没有生命的爱人身边，开始背诵陈词滥调，当他觉得似乎厌倦了这些陈词滥调时，就开始讲故事。

Each was distressed that he or she had not been sent for rather than this impulsive, quick-tempered girl, and each mentally rehearsed platitudes in case of being summoned also.

每个人心里有点懊恼，懊恼为什么没请自己而偏偏请了这位性格倔强的姑娘去，同时在默默准备着，一旦叫到自己时应该说些什么恭维话。

But the new agenda “goes far beyond Wen-era platitudes in its boldness and specificity, ” argues Andrew Batson of GaveKal Dragonomics, a consultancy in Beijing.

不过新工作议程的“大胆程度和具体程度远远超越了温时代的陈词滥调”，来自北京的一家咨询公司GaveKal Dragonomics的Andrew Batson辩称。

Our president seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words but our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes.

我们的总统似乎是个好人。他的讲话充满了好听的话。但是，我们家渴望的不仅仅是空洞的陈词滥调。

" What? " said Helmholtz, in astonishment. " But we're always saying that science is everything. It's a hypnopidic platitude."

“什么！”赫姆霍尔兹吃了一惊，说，“可我们一向说科学就是一切。那已经是睡眠教育的老调了。”

Incessantly bombarded by platitudes, we simply don't listen so well anymore or see so clearly or, finally, feel so deeply.

被陈词滥调一刻不停地轰炸，我们听得就不那么认真了，看得就不那么清晰了；到头来，感受也没有那么深刻了。

They're as comfortable speaking truth to power as they are dismissive of platitudes and punditry.

他们对强权直言不讳，就像他们不屑于陈词滥调和权威一样。

His speech was full of good words but our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes.

他的讲话充满了好听的话，但我们的家渴望的不仅仅是空洞的陈词滥调。

Platitudes and advice, even when said with good intentions, came across as dismissive, reducing great pain to empty one-liners.

即使是出于好意，陈词滥调和建议也会让人觉得不屑一顾，会被认为是把巨大的痛苦化为一句空洞的俏皮话。

They were happy to provide platitudes afterwards: " Boys will be boys" .

" 男孩总归是男孩。"

Yet the practice-which combines management advice with therapy-does not have to be an expensive exercise in platitudes.

然而，这种做法--将管理建议与治疗相结合--并不一定是一种价格高昂且充满了陈词滥调的训练。