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corny adj.谷类的；平淡无奇的；乡巴佬的；陈词滥调；长鸡眼的 (1) 弗雷德的笑话总是如此毫无新意。(2) 这部电影太老土了我不得不在电影没放完之前离开。(3) 老板每次跟员工说话都是陈腔滥调。(4) 有些陈腔滥调的爱情镜头还真容易让人流眼泪。 It can be hard to talk about something emotional without becoming corny. Try describing love at first sight without becoming trite or stickily sentimental and you'll know first-hand how easily you can find yourself sounding corny. For years corny simply meant "full of corn," or "tasting of malt." Sometime in the 1930s it became popular slang meaning "appealing to country folk," who were also described at the time as corn-fed, because of their supposed connection to farms.

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英 ['kɔːni] 美 ['kɔːrni] (1) Fred's jokes are always so corny.(2) The movie was just so corny that I had to leave before it finished.(3) The boss gets too corny when he talk to the worker.(4) Some of the corny love scenes are real tear-jerkers. If your Uncle Marvin has a habit of telling corny jokes, they probably make you groan every single time. Corny describes something that's either worn out and tiresome or overly sentimental — and sometimes both. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]陈旧的；过时的；老生常谈的 If you describe something as corny, you mean that it is obvious or sentimental and not at all original.   [disapproval]I know it sounds corny, but I'm really not motivated by money.我知道这听起来像是老生常谈，但我真的不是为了钱。...corny jokes.老掉牙的笑话

英语单词	corny
英美音标	英 ['kɔːni] 美 ['kɔːrni]
中文释义	adj.谷类的；平淡无奇的；乡巴佬的；陈词滥调；长鸡眼的
英语例句	(1) Fred's jokes are always so corny. (2) The movie was just so corny that I had to leave before it finished. (3) The boss gets too corny when he talk to the worker. (4) Some of the corny love scenes are real tear-jerkers.
中文例句	(1) 弗雷德的笑话总是如此毫无新意。 (2) 这部电影太老土了我不得不在电影没放完之前离开。 (3) 老板每次跟员工说话都是陈腔滥调。 (4) 有些陈腔滥调的爱情镜头还真容易让人流眼泪。
vocabulary简明	If your Uncle Marvin has a habit of telling corny jokes, they probably make you groan every single time. Corny describes something that's either worn out and tiresome or overly sentimental — and sometimes both.
vocabulary扩展	It can be hard to talk about something emotional without becoming corny. Try describing love at first sight without becoming trite or stickily sentimental and you'll know first-hand how easily you can find yourself sounding corny. For years corny simply meant "full of corn," or "tasting of malt." Sometime in the 1930s it became popular slang meaning "appealing to country folk," who were also described at the time as corn-fed, because of their supposed connection to farms.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]陈旧的；过时的；老生常谈的 If you describe something as corny, you mean that it is obvious or sentimental and not at all original. [disapproval] I know it sounds corny, but I'm really not motivated by money. 我知道这听起来像是老生常谈，但我真的不是为了钱。 ...corny jokes. 老掉牙的笑话

Corny Sentimental I Talk Love 英 Kɔːni] 美 Kɔːrni