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

说话过于圆滑更安全，除非说话成了不真诚陈词滥调。

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

尽管我们说了许多陈词滥调，但自欺仍是最难欺骗。

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

她称HFPA计划只不过是" 陈词滥调" 。

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

在我不想留下来时候，我被熟悉陈词滥调淹没了。

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。

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，陈词滥调和议也会让人觉得不屑一顾，会被认为是把巨大痛苦化为一句空洞俏皮话。

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

他讲话充满了好听话，但我们国家渴望不仅仅是空洞陈词滥调。

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

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

That might sound like an empty platitude — the stuff of fortune cookies and bad self-help books.

这听起来像是空洞陈词滥调，像是幸运饼干和糟糕自助书籍。

In fact, it even shows how we tend to reject most of these platitudes and cheesy messages.

事实上，它甚至展现了我们是如何对这种陈腐而媚俗信息说“不”。

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

" 男孩归是男孩。"

" 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，“可我们一向都说科学就是一切。那已经是睡眠教育老调了。”

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。

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-它可能会变得更好，也可能不会。全知式陈词滥调没什么帮助。

It's an oft-quoted historical platitude  that history is written by the victors.

历史是由胜利者书写，这是一句常被引用历史陈词滥调。

Spare me your platitudes, and let me wallow in my own misery.

波特：别拿你陈词滥调来敷衍我，让我沉浸在自己痛苦中吧。

One coughed, and they looked studiedly away from her, stumbling over some new conversational platitude.

有人轻咳一声，他们便故作深思地移开目光，结结巴巴地抛出些新话题陈词滥调。

He was criticizing those who write automatically stitching platitudes together without reflection.

他批评了那些自动写作，将陈词滥调拼接在一起而不加思考人。

And then you've got these women who are yelling platitudes like, take up space.

后你会听到这些女性高喊着陈词滥调，比如“占据空间”。

And that's not some platitude, that is what we are.

而这并非空洞陈词滥调，这就是我们真实写照。