我言不由衷地说了一些表示同情的客套话。I mouthed some sympathetic platitudes.她一句客套话都没讲就开始热切地说起来.She began speaking intensely, without preliminaries.我意识到此时按照惯例我应该说些客套话。I realized that here the conventions required me to make the ritual noise...

“客套话”的英语可以翻译为：civilities，formulae，holiday words，polite formula ...