Today, it's hard to believe liberation or aesthetic renewal can lie in something so banal.

今天，很难相信平庸事物中的性解放或美学复兴。

youdao

Not five minutes from our home, stopped at a traffic light next to our local gas station and a construction site (these things are always so banal) the phone rang.

离我们家不到五分钟，我们的扯停在一个交通灯下，就在我们当地的加油站和施工现场附近(这些事情总是如此平常)，这个时候，电话响了。

youdao

You were very excellent, however, because those negative people around you affected you, so the lack of upward pressures on you, lose the forward momentum and become tacky, so banal.

原本你很优秀，由于周围那些消极的人影响了你，使你缺乏向上的压力，丧失前进的动力而变得俗不可耐，如此平庸。

youdao

As a British expat living abroad (Moscow), will I be able to stream BBC or other British TV to Moscow by the internet and so escape the banal and costly cable TV available here?

BBC: Digital broadcasting: Industry answers

He insists on these points over and over again, as if they were not slightly banal, and unfortunately, as he does so, it becomes clear that he is laying down the law on the basis simply of his own tastes and prejudices.

ECONOMIST: Writing history