The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways.

最功君主在力图抛弃或隐匿他们老套贵族做派。

No one wants to be a punchline, a cliche, a basket case.

没有人希望为别人笑柄，或是一个老套人，或是一个神经紧张人。

It was the same old crap you still see today: slander the messenger so you don't have to hear the message.

这是人们今天仍然能看到老套路：诽谤信使，这样你就听不到消息了。

Now " taco" moment to cook up a few corny puns.

现在玉米饼时间制作一点老套双关语。

In its place, a love story between a special forces captain and a headstrong female surgeon, an evenly matched duo, unfolds not at work stations but in a war zone.

外形甜美演员、复杂情节、大呼小叫氛围是韩剧手段，而《太阳后裔》，这部最近刚结束16集电视剧也并不例外。但其爆炸性功或许是因为采了一对完美演员组合，以往韩剧都是富家弟追求平，认为她是自己灵魂伴侣老套情节。

Acting out stereotypes of people from different countries can be very funny.

表演老套人们从不同国家是非常滑稽。

And as I made my way down the corridor, a broken, blinking light made it just like the cliche scene from a gangster movie.

当我沿着走廊走下去时，一盏坏掉闪个不停灯让这景象看来很像老套黑帮电影。

" It's the oldest trick in the book."

" 这是最老套伎俩了。"

Joe agreed to Anna's idea? I can't believe he fell for that old trick!

乔同意了安娜想法？我真不敢相信他竟然上这种老套路当！

Yeah, well, we aren't your typical weight loss program, Kate.

我们不是那种老套减肥项目，凯特。

And you were also queueing, the most stereotypical conversation ever.

你也在排队，这是有史以来最老套对话。

In a 2013 study with a couple hundred participants, scientists found that subjects who read literary fiction with complex characters – as opposed to pop fiction, with predictable characters, nonfiction, or nothing – scored higher in measures of affective theory of mind.

在2013年一项有数百名参与者研究中，科学家发现，受试者若是阅读具有复杂角色文学小说——与阅读通俗小说、人物老套乏味书籍、纪实文学或甚至什么都不读人相比——在情感心理理论方面得分更高。

And if you are going to the trouble of building mirrors to do that, you might as well go down the steam-generation route, which is a much more efficient way of producing electricity.

而如果你费尽力气一堆镜达到这个温度差，你很可能走回蒸汽发动老套路上了，那是一种效率更高发电方式。

And by that, I don't mean the way he starts running his family like a platoon of soldiers, which I personally think is a bit of a tired story trope.

我并不是指他开始像一列士兵一样管理他家庭，我个人认为这是一个有点老套故事。

But when she was asked to respond to disparaging comments about her racial identity, she brushed off the question, saying, quote, " same old tired playbook - next question, please."

但是，当她被要求回应有关她种族身份贬低性言论时，她对这个问题不屑一顾，她说，“同样老套剧本——下一个问题，谢谢。”

The poems were feeble, and the stories that followed his two groundbreaking works tended to tell, less well, the same tale of Everyman against the system.

他诗未免虚弱乏力。而继前期两部开创性作品之后短篇也乏善可陈，因为未能推陈出新，题材往往是讲述普罗大众与体制作斗争老套故事。

The idea of a boss marrying his secretary (or a doctor dating a nurse) is one of the oldest cliches around.

老板和他秘书结婚（或者医生和护士约会）是人们对于办公室恋情最老套看法之一。

What happened next is cliche, that classic story where the understudy gets his big break when the big-name guy doesn't show.

接下来发生就是老生常谈了，那种经典老套故事，当大名鼎鼎人物不出现时，替补演员得到了他大好机会。

Dispense with hackneyed descriptors (" cultivated and passionate professional" , " a keen eye for detail" )-facts should speak for themselves.

摒弃老套描述（“修养深厚且充满热情专业人士”“对细节有敏锐洞察力”），事实应该不言自明。

A rail system seems archaic for a attraction this impressive.

这么经典东西这么老套轨道系统。