hackneyed

• adj.陳腐な；平凡な
• v. （馬や馬車などを）貸し出す；奴隷にする（ハックニーの過去形）

ハックニー、古馬牧場、ひいては古馬、くだらない。

hackneyed (adj.)

"trite, so overused as to have become uninteresting," 1749, figurative use of past participle adjective from hackney (v.) "use a horse for riding" (1570s), hence "make common by indiscriminate use" (1590s), from hackney (n.), and compare hack (n.2) in its specialized sense of "one who writes anything for hire." From 1769 as "kept for hire."

1. This article is rather hackneyed .

この文章はあまりにもぼんやりしている。

2.Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts.That 's the old hackneyed phrase，but it 's true.権力は腐敗を招き、絶対権力は絶対腐敗を招く。これはありふれた話だが、真理だ。

3.The hackneyed phrase came unintended to his lips.

彼はこの老いぼれた常套句を言い放った。

4.Properly used，and not hackneyed ，the words are good and appropriate.

乱用ではなく適切に使えば、これらの字は適切な良い字です。

5.If the the me were hackneyed ，I should be obliged to deal gently with the reader.

これが昔話のテーマなら、読者に軽く書いておけばいい。