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说套话

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Collocation

1
说了很多套话
2
喜欢说套话
3
不应该说套话
4
大家都说套话

Definition

说套话

Literally means:

make conventional remarks

Actually means:

talk stereotyped expressions

套话 refers to empty stereotyped expressions.

It means using conventional expressions or copying other people's words that are of little realistic significance in one's speech or writing, showing no originality and creativity. It implies lacking creativity or originality.

套话,内容空洞的现成模式化言谈。

说套话,在言谈或写作中使用当今流行的、没有针对性和新内容的模式化话语,或套用别人说过的、没有现实意义的老话。含有缺少独立见解,没有创新的意思。

Example

Used as predicate or object. It can be used with other words in between. (作谓语、宾语,中间可插入别的词语)
1
Guān
关于
gǎijìn
改进
gōngzuò
工作
de
shì
  
,
zhè
wèi
chǎngzhǎng
厂长
méiyǒu
没有
chū
提出
具体
bàn
办法
  
,
ér
zhī
lǒngtǒng
笼统
shuō
le
gōu
tàohuà
套话
  
,
shuí
míngbái
明白
gāi
zěnme
怎么
zuò
  

Regarding the improvement of the work, the factory director did not put forward specific measures, but only a few general words, no one understood how to do.

2
Xiě
wénzhāng
文章
néng
shuō
tàohuà
套话
  
,
shuōkōnghuà
说空话
  
,
shuōhuà
说大话
  
,
yīnwèi
因为
zhèzhǒng
这种
wénzhāng
文章
zhě
读者
shì
kàn
de
  

Writing articles can't be erred, empty, big talk, because readers of this kind of article don't read.

3
Xīn
lái
de
shū
秘书
lǐngdǎo
领导
xiě
de
piān
jiǎnghuàgǎo
讲话稿
dōu
méiyǒu
没有
bèi
cǎiyòng
采用
  
,
yuányīn
原因
shì
huì
不会
shuō
guānchǎng
官场
de
tàohuà
套话
  

Several speeches written by the new secretary for the leader were not adopted because he did not speak the official way.