prosaic（英語單詞），詞性為形容詞，英美發音分別為[prəˈzeɪɪk]/[proʊˈzeɪk]，意為“平凡的，乏味的；散文體的”。該詞在柯林斯詞典中被定義為“枯燥乏味且缺乏想像力”，多用於正式語境，既可修飾具體事物（如prosaic day），也可描述抽象概念（如prosaic criticism）。
其核心釋義包含兩個維度：一是指散文體（與詩歌相對），二指缺乏想像力或平凡的日常狀態。短語搭配涉及生活場景（prosaic life）及文學領域（prosaic novel），副詞形式為prosaically。現代用法可延伸至修飾政策優先事項等抽象概念，語義呈現從單純描述文體到負面評價的演變。
詞源追溯至拉丁語prosa（散文），1650年代初始義項“與散文相關”，1746年衍生出“具有散文特徵”的文學含義，至1813年發展為現今主要含義“缺乏詩意想像的平凡特質”。該詞在英語中經歷了從文體描述到價值判斷的語義擴展。
基本介紹
- 外文名：prosaic
- 詞性：形容詞
- 英式發音：[prəˈzeɪɪk]
- 美式發音：[proʊˈzeɪɪk]
單詞用法,短語搭配,雙語例句,
單詞用法
柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典
prosaic /prəʊˈzeɪɪk/
1.ADJ Something that is prosaic is dull and uninteresting. 枯燥乏味的 [正式]
短語搭配
prosaic day 平淡無奇的一天
Prosaic Fu 散體賦
prosaic style 平淡風格
prosaic novel 散文化小說
prosaic tendency 散文化
Prosaic Language 平淡無奇言語
Seem Prosaic 看上去平淡無奇
prosaic criticism 隨筆體
prosaic movie 散文化電影
雙語例句
- His instructor offered a more prosaic explanation for the surge in interest. 他的老師對利率的急劇上升給出了一個更枯燥乏味的解釋。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》
- It was a prosaic description of the scene. 這是對場景沒有想像力的一個描述。
- The alternative explanation is more prosaic. 另一種解釋更為平庸。
- Dimensions of experience excluded as prosaic. 體驗層面被看成平淡無奇的敘事。
- But his biggest challenge may be more prosaic. 但是他最大的挑戰可能更加平淡無奇。
- How prosaic, and yet how magical such paragraphs are! 這樣的段落是多么平淡，又多么不可思議啊！
- The Cuban revolution at 50: Heroic myth and prosaic failure. Heroic my thand prosaic failure英雄般的神話與實實在在的失敗。
- Yet, as in much of Bihar, a prosaic present belies a poetic past. 但是，和比哈爾其他地方一樣，在如今缺乏活力的外表下沉睡著另一個詩意般的過去。
- But amid all the celebration it is worth asking a prosaic question. 但是，在慶祝之時，有必要問一個平常的問題。
- Guardiola, though proud of Barca's system, has a more prosaic view. 儘管為巴薩的體系感到驕傲，瓜迪奧拉的觀點卻很平凡。
- Ten months and several billion dollars later, the task is more prosaic. 十個月的時間過去了，幾十億的錢花掉了，情勢卻更加讓人失去信心
- But the reality is more prosaic - as so often with exotic commodities sagas. 但現實要平凡得多——那些離奇怪誕的大宗商品傳奇往往如此。
- Prosaic as it might sound, the first thing most people look at is the price. 那就象散文一樣的動聽，事實上第一件事人們盯住的就是價格。
- After all those months of deliberation, was this prosaic utterance the pay-off? 經過這么多個月的斟酌，結果就是這些平淡的話語嗎？
- At the more prosaic end of the market, sales of dog and cat food are also soaring. 在更為平淡的市場終端上，銷售狗食和貓食同樣火爆。
- That's GTD, short for "Getting Things Done," the prosaic title of his best-selling book. 這就是GTD，“儘管去做”的簡稱，同時也是他的暢銷書的樸實無華的標題。
- That may sound prosaic, but Schuman declared that it was much more than just a business deal. 這種想法聽上去單調乏味，但舒曼宣稱其意義超過了商業交易。
- Can you think of many other executives who would turn something so prosaic into folklore? 你能找到很多其他執行官把一些簡單乏味的事情變成習俗嗎？
- Express non-prosaic data using links to objects such as images, stylesheets and the like. 使用到一些對象(如圖像、樣式表之類的)的連結表示特殊的數據。
- That's GTD, short for "Getting Things Done, " the prosaic title of his best-selling book. 這就是GTD，“儘管去做”的簡稱，同時也是他的暢銷書的樸實無華的標題。
- Romantic types might say they seek the perfect soulmate but the revealed truth is more prosaic. 浪漫型的人士可能聲稱自己在尋覓完美無暇的紅顏知己，然而，呈現的真相卻十分平淡無奇
- The movie, whose working title is the reassuringly prosaic 'Confucius', has no confirmed release date. 這部電影暫定名為《孔子》，非常普通。目前它還沒有確定的放映日期。
- No, I mean you know, cabernets can be powerful and exalting too, but they seem prosaic to me, by comparison. 我是說紅葡萄酒也可以很有勁，但是想比較而言，cabernet就俗氣了。
- It speaks to our sense of freedom, to our wish not to be hemmed in by the prosaic circumstances of our lives. 金錢直指我們的自由感、我們不願拘泥於平淡生活的意願。
- Perhaps the leading theory focuses on a much more prosaic realm: the slimy interface where the sea laps against land. 可能最重要的理論集中在一個平凡得多的領域即在大海和陸地之間黏糊糊的交界面。
