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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 tru·ism /ˈtruˌɪzəm/
 自明之理,陳詞濫調,眾所周知,老生常談

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tru·ism n.  An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
    Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words.   --J. P. Smith.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 truism
      n : an obvious truth