cut-and-dried

adj.

事先准备的，俗套的；枯燥无味；

1. He was by nature revolutionary and unconventional.
   他生来具有叛逆的、非传统的性格。
2. He is just an ordinary man and can only write a conventional book.
   他不过是个凡俗之辈，所以才写出如此俗套的作品来。

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