Cut and Dried——枯燥無味

** prearranged or predetermined（預先安排的或預先確定的）// ready-made（現成的）// unoriginal（非原創的）// trite（過時的）// hackneyed（陳腐的）// routine（例行）// commonplace（普通的）// predictable（可預測的）// uninteresting（無趣的）// pro forma（慣常的）

~~ 枯燥無味；無新意；陳詞濫調;；老生常談的；事先備好；不新鮮的；枯燥；單調；呆板；老一套的；老套；提前準備講稿現場照念

~~ cut and dry // pretty cut-and-dry // plain and simple // copy and paste

!! The term originally alluded to cut-and-dried herbs that were sold in the herbalists’ shops ofEngland, which were more medicinally effective dried than fresh. It was used in a 1710 letter to the Rev. Henry Sacheverell: “Your sermon was ready cut and dried,” meaning it had been prepared in advance, lacking freshness and spontaneity.

（該術語最初指英國草藥店所出售已切碎和曬乾的草藥，這些草藥乾的效果比新鮮的有效。它在1710年給Henry Sacheverell牧師的一封信中使用，“你的講道是cut and dried，”這意味着它是預先準備的、沒有新鮮感和自發性。）

!! One can imagine cutting a piece of meat into strips and drying it in the sun that turns them into jerky.

（可以想像將一塊肉切成條，在陽光下曬乾，變成肉乾。）

>> You have cooked these three dishes for seven consecutive days, which is really cut and dried.

（你已連續七天煮的都是這三道菜，實在枯燥無味。）

>> Every Valentine's Day, you always go to the flower shop to buy me almost the same kind of red roses, which are expensive and pretty cut-and-dry!

（每年情人節，你都是到花店買幾乎一樣的紅玫瑰給我，又貴又無新意！）

學勤進修教育中心英語專科導師 李啟文　　教授