Instead, he chooses to package his career into a series of trite leadership lessons.

相反地，他选择把他的金融生涯写成一个老生常谈的领导力课程。

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This sounds trite, but involves a set of skills that is more than simply hearing the words spoken or reading the words on the written page.

虽然听起来有点老生常谈，但其实倾听比仅仅听别人说出来的话或者阅读书面文字需要更多的技巧。

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I know it's trite to say it, but it's so easy to get off the path to a good plan if you don't have the goals clearly defined up front.

我知道这样说有点老套，但如果您还没有清晰地定义前方的目标，那么可以非常轻松地开辟出通往一项良好计划的道路。

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But this is the age of social media, where even a trite ad can stir up a tempest.

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There's also a trite love story between Ferris and Aisha (Golshifteh Farahani), a nurse whose main function is to prove that Arabs aren't just people, they're also convenient pawns when it comes to engineering a good old-fashioned melodramatic ending.

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There's something a little trite about the argument that this is "a new way of war".

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