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

说话过于圆滑更安全，除非说的话成了不真诚的词调。

I've ever really been running from is the banal.

唯一让我不断逃避的是那些词调。

But even cliches sometimes hit the nerd on the head.

但是甚至词调有时候也会无端说中。

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

尽管我们说了许多词调，但自欺仍然是最难的欺骗。

As cliche as it sounds, we all know that people who read succeed.

尽管听起来有些词调，但道理我们都清楚，书中自有黄屋。

Well, let's skip the racial and social Darwinists stereotypes, but resources and leadership are interesting.

我们跳过种族和社会达尔者的腔调，说说有趣的资源和领导力吧。

It's a cliche that the prosecutor is counting on you to believe.

这是公诉人希望你们相信的词调。

Teenage runaways are not news. They are cliches.

青少年离家出走不是新闻 是腔调。

That everyone's too busy these days is a cliche.

如今人人都抱怨自己很忙，这已经是人们口中的词调了。

One cliche that you shouldn't say is I'm a perfectionist.

一个你不应该说的词调是我是一个完美者。

Cliches are phrases or ideas that have become meaningless because they've been overused.

词调是指那些因为被过度使用而变得毫无意的短语或想法。

You never use cliches, do you, Neil?

你从来不说那些词调，是吧，尼尔？

Our suggestion is that the fourth strategy, to avoid visual Cliches.

避免视觉词调。

Margaret's third novel didn't do anything new and it just felt creatively bankrupt.

玛格丽特的第三部小说没有任何新意，只是感觉词调。

Suddenly these cliches are scientific questions, as researchers scrutinize the power of positive thinking.

当研究者们详细检测积极思维的作用时，突然之间这些词调都成为了科学问题。

Hackneyed or trite writing is commonplace and repeated too often.

词调很常见，而且重复得太频繁了。

I don't care how boilerplate it is.

我不在乎它是多么的词调。

That last guy droned on for 20 minutes, you know?

上个家伙词调的给我讲了20分钟？

It hurts my heart, because It is so cliche.

因为这是典型的词调, 这伤透了我的心。

And no, this isn't a corny message about how nature is the best engineer.

不过别误会，我不是想强调大自然是最好的工程师这种词调。