- 1陳腐的、老套的、乏味的
Something banal is ordinary in a tired way. It is not interesting, because it has no new idea in it. A banal comment is the kind everyone has already heard, like “time flies” said as if it were a discovery. A banal film copies the same old story. The word is a little formal and a little sharp: you use it when you are judging, not when you are being kind. Though actually, what feels banal to one person can still feel fresh to another; the word is about a feeling of “I have seen this too many times,” not about a scientific fact. It is stronger than simple and colder than ordinary. Simple can be good. Banal means the ordinary has gone dull.
組成Borrowed from French banal, which first meant “held in common” or tied to feudal service — a mill or oven that everyone in the village had to use. From that “shared by all” sense it came to mean “commonplace.” The French word goes back through Medieval Latin to a Germanic verb *bannaną, “to order, summon, or forbid.” In English it is like ban + -al.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
banaladj/bəˈnɑːl/
- 1
Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
- banal clichés
- banal conversation
- 2
historicalRelating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.
- They arrived in 1732, and were distributed gratis to the more important banal mills.
- French historians have viewed these policies as efforts to replace the banal authority inherited from the Carolingians […]
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