cliché: [19] Originally, French clicher meant literally ‘stereotype’ – that is, ‘print from a plate made by making a type-metal cast from a mould of a printing surface’. The word was supposedly imitative of the sound made when the mould was dropped into the molten type metal. Hence a word or phrase that was cliché – had literally been repeated time and time again in identical form from a single printing plate – had become hackneyed.
cliche (n.)
1825, "electrotype, stereotype," from French cliché, a technical word in printer's jargon for "stereotype block," noun use of past participle of clicher "to click" (18c.), supposedly echoic of the sound of a mold striking molten metal. Figurative extension to "trite phrase, worn-out expression" is first attested 1888, following the course of stereotype. Related: Cliched (1928).
雙語例句
1. To use a well-worn cliche, it is packed with information.
說得老套一點，其內(nèi)容翔實。
來自柯林斯例句
2. I've learned that the cliche about life not being fair is true.
我發(fā)現(xiàn)“人生是不公平的”這句老話沒有錯。
來自柯林斯例句
3. You should always try to avoid the use of cliche.
你應(yīng)該盡量避免使用陳詞濫調(diào).
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. He talks uninterestingly in boring cliche & 1 & s.