- 1陳腐、乏味；也可指一句陳腔濫調
Banality is the noun for that tired, ordinary quality. You can talk about the banality of a speech, a song, or even a whole way of talking. If a talk is full of banality, it is full of ideas so used-up that they no longer wake anyone up. A single tired sentence can also be called a banality. Writers sometimes speak of “the banality of evil,” a famous, heavy phrase, to say that terrible things can be done in a dull, office-like way, with no big dark speech. That is a special use you may meet later in books. In everyday English, banality just means the state of being banal: dullness that comes from having nothing new to say. Though actually, calling something a banality is a judgement, the same as calling it banal; it is not a neutral school-book label.
組成From French banalité, from banal. In English it is banal + -ity, the ending that turns an adjective into a “quality of” noun, as in real → reality.
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- banalthe adjective this noun is built from
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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banalitynoun/bəˈnælɪti/
- 1
The quality of being banal.
- The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following the publication of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, which was based on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem.
- 2
Something which is banal.
- 3
historicalrareA feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at the lord's mill, or the profits accruing from such rights.
- The law of banality, one of the most oppressive products of feudalism, was revived for the advantage of the nobility.
- Other banalities included the lord's exclusive right to hunt over the land, his monopoly over fishing, and his right to keep the dove-cote whose feathery occupants ate a peasant's standing crops.
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