prosy meaning in Chinese
adj.
(-ier; -iest) 散文(体)的,枯燥无味的,?唆的。
Examples
- He read her prosy letter with rigid face .
他读她这封婆婆妈妈的信时,脸上表情严肃。 - But the thing was , how to get into the first - class magazines . his best stories , essays , and poems went begging among them , and yet , each month , he read reams of dull , prosy , inartistic stuff between all their various covers
论文和诗歌都在那些杂志间沿门乞讨而他每个月都要在那些杂志不同的封面与封底之间读到无数篇沉闷乏味没有艺术性的玩意。 - The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod - and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving . tom counted the pages of the sermon ; after church he always knew how many pages there had been , but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse
牧师宣布了布道词引用的圣经章节,接着就单调乏味地进行施道,如此平淡?嗦以致于有许多人渐渐地低下头打瞌睡他的布道词里讲了数不清的各种各样的地狱里的刑罚,让人有种感觉,能够有资格让上帝选入天堂的真是为数极少,几乎不值得拯救了。