truism

noun

1. 不言而喻的道理；自明之理；老生常谈
   a statement that is clearly true and does not therefore add anything interesting or important to a discussion

1. N-COUNT 陈词滥调;不言自明的说法
   A truism is a statement that is generally accepted as obviously true and is repeated so often that it has become boring.
   1. Orpington seems an example of the truism that nothing succeeds like success...
      奥尔平顿似乎验证了一个常理——一事成功百事顺。
   2. Whilst this might sound like a truism, it is nevertheless a crucial problem to address.
      尽管这可能听起来像是老生常谈，但却是待解决的重要问题。

1. Orpington seems an example of the truism that nothing succeeds like success
   奥尔平顿似乎验证了一个常理——一事成功百事顺。
2. Whilst this might sound like a truism, it is nevertheless a crucial problem to address.
   尽管这可能听起来像是老生常谈，但却是待解决的重要问题。
3. But are executives really putting this truism into practice?
   这个观点已经是老生常谈，但管理者真的把它付诸实践了吗？
4. It's even worse when paired with the truism that errors will occur in your applications.
   您的应用程序将出现错误，这是人人都懂的道理，但是会使情况变得更糟。
5. If there is one system administration truism, it is this: no simple sysadmin task is fun more than twice.
   如果存在一个系统管理公理，那就是：两次过后，没有系统管理任务是有趣的。
6. It is a truism that a tired worker is less productive than a fresh one.
   疲劳的员工的生产率没有精力充沛的员工高，这是不言而喻的道理。
7. That tired truism about wanting only a healthy baby and not caring about gender?
   还在老生常谈不管性别如何，只要一个健康的宝宝吗？
8. While that's been acknowledged informally for some time in Canada, a new survey by the Bank of Montreal suggests there is no reason to doubt the truism.
   尽管在加拿大，这一模式早前就已得到民众认可，但蒙特利尔银行的一项新调查表明这一老生常谈是无可置疑的。
9. It has become a truism, buttressed by the hard realities of economic performance, that the 21st century will belong to Asia.
   21世纪将属于亚洲，这已成为老生常谈，经济表现的现实支持着这种说法。
10. It is a truism Lo say that the culture of any nation is the product of its mind.
    任何一个民族的文化都是它的思想的产物，这句话是毫无疑义的。
11. The truism that banking is a confidence game barely needs repeating.
    银行业是一场信心博弈已是老生常谈。
12. Now medical researchers are discovering another truism.
    现在医学研究工作者又发现一条不言而喻的道理。
13. As far as your health is concerned, it's a truism that prevention is better than cure.
    就你的健康而言，预防胜于治疗，这是不言而喻的。
14. This theme is expressed in the truism that "no nation which oppresses another can itself be free".
    这一点已经表现在尽人皆知的真理里：凡是压迫别国的国家，自己也不可能有自由。
15. Many a poor or lower-middle peasant would have been confused if the Party had not refuted this truism. The 70 per cent, the poor peasants, may be sub-divided into two categories, the utterly destitute and the less destitute.
    如果党不给以批评，它就会使许多贫农和下中农感到迷惑。百分之七十的贫农中，又分赤贫、次贫二类。
16. It is an old truism when dealing with this sort of investment that you should buy the best you can afford and buy only what you like.
    在处理此类投资时，有一个古老的真理：你应该买你能承担得起的最好的东西，而且只买你喜欢的东西。
17. It is a truism that economic prosperity is accompanied by cultural prowess.
    从过去的历史看，经济繁荣总是与文化实力相伴相依。
18. It is a truism that teaching language is teaching culture.
    教授语言的同时传播文化是一个不言而喻的道理。
19. It is an obvious truism that people act in accordance with their motives.
    人人都按自己的动机行事是不言而喻的。
20. This is not a platitude nor theorem, it is a truism.
    这不是陈词滥调，而是事实。
21. His words are regarded almost as a truism today.
    如今，他的话几乎被奉为真理。
22. He seems no unique opinion, and his speech full of truism.
    他似乎没有什么独到的见解，他的讲话充满了陈词滥调。
23. Oh who could deny that? That needs to be a truism.
    谁能否认这点呢，那需要是真理。
24. It is a truism of anthropology that all cultures assume that their own particular death practices are natural and right.
    人类学中有一条不言而喻的道理，即所有文化都认为自己的殡葬仪式是天经地义和理所当然的。
25. Most policy failures in the US stem from a failure to appreciate this truism and therefore to take steps that would have been productive pre-crisis but are counterproductive now with the economy severely constrained by lack of confidence and demand.
    美国的大多数政策失误，都源自于未能认识到这一至理，因而采取了在危机前本会有效、但目前却事与愿违的举措，信心匮乏和需求不足对经济构成了严重制约。
26. So long as those associations were the only medium through which the subject was looked at, what we now think so gross an absurdity seemed a truism.
    只要这些联想是考察这一问题的唯一媒介，我们现在认识到的显而易见的谬论就似乎是自明之理。
27. When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.
    当亚里士多德说，人类天生是政治动物，他的主张，不只是老生常谈，或是陈腔滥调。
28. It is a truism that both brevity and readability are good.
    众所周知，简洁和可读性都好。
29. A truism in any software system is that the only constant is change.
    任何软件系统中都存在的一个真理是：唯一不变的是变化。
30. It is a truism that the pig producer must react to change in order to remain profitable.
    养猪生产者必须对变化做出反应，以便继续保持生产者的利益。这是人人都懂得的事。

noun

1. an obvious truth