prosaic
a. 散文的, 散文体的, 平凡的
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教材释义与例句
平凡的，乏味的；散文体的
释义与例句
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1.
Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
散文式的
The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
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2.
Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
就事论事的
不带感情的
I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
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3.
Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
平淡的
乏味的
His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
She lived a prosaic life.
词汇关系
词源
From Middle French prosaïque, from Medieval Latin prosaicus (“in prose”), from Latin prosa (“prose”), from prorsus (“straightforward, in prose”), from Old Latin provorsus (“straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), from vertō (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn, to bend”).
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