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Перевод: prolix

[прилагательное]
нудный; тягучий; скучный; многословный; подробный; излишне подробный

Тезаурус:

1. "Of course, she'd have to cook her report sheet or whatever they call it," she went on, becoming - for her - positively prolix.
2. In fact, within a year of the formation of the Labour Government, senior officials in the Cabinet Office, Treasury and Board of Trade had become seriously alarmed by the cumbersome nature of the organization supporting the Attlee Cabinet, the proliferation of committees and the prolix and indecisive performance of some ministers.
3. Thoughtful and trenchant, his prolix arguments could often be tiresome, although Thomas Babington Macaulay, first Baron Macaulay q.v., thought his attack on the National Board system, in the first debate on the issue when Sir Robert Peel came to power in 1841, led to "the very best parliamentary set-to between the secretary and the solicitor-general for Ireland which has ever been witnessed".
4. It is apparent that other factors may also be relevant: for instance, in Stag Line Ltd v Tyne Ship Repair Group Ltd (The Zinnia) 1984 2 Lloyd's Rep 211 Staughton J was inclined to hold the terms in a commercial contract unreasonable first because they are in such small print that one can barely read them; secondly, the draftsmanship is so convoluted and prolix that one almost needs an LLB to understand them.
5. Not all poems are sufficiently lyrical, and they may be overburdened with wordy information: This kind poetry is far too prolix to be successfully set to music.
6. Quota filmmaking also made the argument for narrative simplicity that sometimes escaped the more prolix mainstream filmmakers.
7. Few could have been less suited for the military life than the historian Edward Gibbon who, as he admitted in his Autobiography , "never handled a gun seldom mounted a horse" but, living with his father, a country gentleman, at Buriton, near Petersfield, he felt obliged to apply for a commission as a captain in the South battalion of the Hampshire militia, 476 strong, of which his father became major and a local nobleman, "after a prolix and passionate contest" with the Lord Lieutenant, lieut. -colonel.
8. In Stag Line Ltd v Tyne Ship Repair Group Ltd (The Zinnia) 1984 2 Lloyd's Rep 211, 222 Staughton J observed that he was tempted to hold that exclusion clauses in the contract before him were unreasonable because first they are in such small print that one can barely read them; secondly, the draftsmanship is so convoluted and prolix that one almost needs an LLB to understand them.
9. Now they seem impossibly self-indulgent and prolix.
10. Both were tough on the prolix.
11. I am quite unable to accept that Parliament in adopting somewhat more prolix language was intending to achieve a result which differed from that recommended by the committee.
12. Nevertheless, her sparing detail is invariably more fully indicative of social change than that of her more prolix contemporaries.
13. Though Russian, Bakhtin wrote in a tradition of Germanic scholarship, and his work, particularly in the collection of theoretical essays, The Dialogic Imagination , can be prolix, repetitive, and opaque.