The picture he paints of Africa—with a leopard calmly surveying the world from its grassy hillock—is clichéd enough, but his China is positively hackneyed.

他描绘的非洲——一头豹子站在草冈上平静地窥视着世界——已经够老套了，而他对中国的描绘则更显得陈腐。

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She will certainly serve as a better guide to exploring those issues that don’t easily fit into the already hackneyed “Dragon vs. Elephant” cliché.

她无疑会作为一个更好的指导者，帮助我们探讨那些已不合时宜的“龙象对阵”问题的陈词滥调。

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This is probably a good bit better than the hackneyed method that H. 264 uses, which always struck me as being poorly designed.

这可能是比H.264的陈腐做法好一点的一个办法，H.264在这个地方的差劲设计始终困扰着我。

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Since the burst of the dot-com bubble, the Internet-connected refrigerator, blender, toaster--fill in your favorite appliance here--have all become hackneyed jokes of a bygone era.

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In that hackneyed phrase, we need a third way between privatisation and centralised state provision.

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The signature caftans, which reached cult status after being adopted by Oprah, convey a kind of blue- blood ease that feels genuine rather than hackneyed and, more importantly, they happen to flatter a wide range of sizes and ages.

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