adj. 陈腐的，老生常谈的
twice-told //
形容词 hackneyed through repeated use 第二次用的陈腐的
... twice-told tles 重讲一遍的故事 twice-told 教过两次的 ; 说过两次的 Twice-told Story 老生常谈 ...
... twice-told 第二次教的 all told 总共 a little bird told me 别人告诉我 ...
Deta did not have to be told twice.
迪蒂不需要被告知两次。
If I've told you once, I've told you twice.
如果我已经告诉过您一次，那么我就已经告诉您两次了。
Someone else told me the lake was only one meter deep, but it was at least twice that.
有人告诉我这个湖只有一米深，但它至少有两倍深。
But there had been no true words for the act then: rape was what occurred when some maniac jumped on you out of a bush, not when your formal-dance date drove you to a side road in the mangy twice-cut forest surrounding a tin-pot mining town and told you to drink up like a good girl and then took you apart, layer by torn layer.
"Tevez is absolutely key to City's hopes, both in this match and for the rest of the season, " Rosler, who scored twice against United in the Manchester derby during a four-year spell at the club from 1994-98, told BBC Sport.
At his Senate hearing last month, General Hayden told Michigan Democrat Carl Levin not once but twice that he was not "comfortable" with intelligence-related work that had been done by an office reporting to former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith.