old chestnut

美 　英

• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)陳詞濫調(diào)；栗子老了；老套

英漢解釋

na.	1. a story or joke that has been repeated so often that everyone is bored with it

例句

Lincoln's sigh, quoted above, is a bit of an old chestnut. But it tells us something about the great president's character.

前文提到了林肯的嘆息也已經(jīng)是一種陳詞濫調(diào)了，但是這讓我們對這位偉大總統(tǒng)的性格有了更深的了解。

Lincoln's sigh, quoted above, is a bit of an old chestnut.

在上文中引用的林肯的嘆息有點老生常談。

I cannot tell you how ancient it makes me feel to be dealing with the re-emergence of this old chestnut.

我無法告訴你處理這場重新出現(xiàn)的舊問題對我來說時隔多長時間。

He gave as his excuse for being late that old chestnut about the train being delayed.

他用火車誤點那樣老掉牙的說法作為自己遲到的借口。更詳細(xì)。

That hoary old chestnut should've been put to bed with the white australia policy.

這么老掉牙的東西還是和白澳政策一起塞到床底下去吧。

The Golden Rule ( "do unto your customers. . . " ) is an old chestnut of the marketing world.

黃金法則（“對待你的客戶”）是營銷界非常古老的一條法則。

The old chestnut about women being more emotional than men has been forever destroyed by the facts of two great wars.

那些古老的認(rèn)為女人比男人更容易情緒化的想法都被兩次世界大戰(zhàn)的事實所打破。

an old chestnut to us, and we have heard it more than one hundred times.

祖父老是講那老掉牙的故事，我們都聽了不下一百次了。

I will be happy if. . . I still hear this old chestnut.

如果……我就會感到快樂直到現(xiàn)在我仍然能聽到這句老話。

The issue at stake is that old chestnut of global macroeconomic imbalances.

關(guān)鍵就在于人們常說的全球宏觀經(jīng)濟失衡。