What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

还有再比这个更平凡无聊的吗？

A more prosaic explanation is that his condition was psychosomatic.

一种比较符合实际的说法是一种身心疾病。

Overblown language is also used when the actual business is prosaic.

当实际业务平淡无奇时，人们也会使用夸张的语言。

That was the job of the more prosaic, undecorated tiles covering the whole roof.

那是覆盖整个屋顶、更加普通、没有装饰的瓦片的工作。

To non-biologists, this may sound somewhere between arcane and prosaic.

对于非生物学家来说，这听起来可能介于神秘和平淡之间。

Pipes, you know, all the kind of like prosaic stuff.

烟斗，你知道，都是些平淡无奇的东西。

But to a prosaic person like me symbolism is often obscure.

但对于像我这样平淡无奇的人来说， 象征主义往往是晦涩难懂的。

The reality, however, is probably more prosaic.

【prosaic】然而，事实很可能更平淡无奇。

That sounded so prosaic; but to my surprise I found it true.

这听起来很平淡；但令我惊讶的是，我发现这是真的。

The authors attribute Tokyo's success to prosaic policy choices rather than an abstract national essence.

作者将东京的成功归功于平淡无奇的政策选择，而不是抽象的民族本质。

So yeah, I... it sounds prosaic, it sounds like being a sort of filing clerk or something for your own work.

这听起来很平淡，就像是给自己的作品做归档分类。

Over a century and a half, Boots had built up a business that serviced the most prosaic aspects of British life.

在一个半世纪的时间里，博姿创办了一家服务于英国人生活中最平淡无奇的方面的公司。

It diverted her enormously to hear occult matters discussed with apparent gravity in this prosaic tavern.

在这个平淡无奇的小酒馆里听到表面上严肃地讨论神秘事物， 这让她分心了。

" Husband" ! said Marty, who was at the most prosaic and literal period of the boyish mind.

“丈夫” ！ 马蒂说，他正处于孩子气最平淡无奇的时期。

Happiness and sorrow, despair and hope were there, but all encompassed by the heavy tedium of prosaic sameness.

幸福和悲伤， 绝望和希望都在那里，但都被平淡无奇的千篇一律所包围。

It may sound prosaic, and unimaginative and dry, but you'll find that it wears in the long run.

这听起来可能平淡无奇、缺乏想象力且枯燥乏味， 但从长远来看， 您会发现它是经久不衰的。

Or for a more normal prosaic, non-cloning example, let's say my sister and I are going out for coffee.

或者对于一个更正常的平淡无奇、非克隆的例子，假设我和我姐姐要出去喝咖啡。

As things turned out, the contrasting styles of his predecessors may have made Mr Biden's deeply prosaic register an asset after all.

事实证明，与前任总统们截然不同的风格竟然可能使拜登平淡无奇的语体风格变成难能可贵的财富。

They vary from the delight that megafauna provide those visiting a safari park to the more prosaic: pollinators fertilising crops; earthworms keeping the soil healthy.

包括大型动物为参观野生动物园的游客带来的愉悦，也包括一些更平淡的用处：传粉昆虫给农作物授粉，蚯蚓保持土壤健康。

With over-prominent ears and a prosaic hair-cut, Dale Carnegie was almost the anti-type of what we imagine a great and centrally important writer might be like.

戴尔·卡内基有着过于突出的耳朵和平淡无奇的发型，他几乎是我们想象中伟大而重要的作家的反面。