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Перевод: prosaic

[прилагательное]
прозаический; прозаичный; скучный

Тезаурус:

1. The prosaic explanation for the Government's inaction is an insult to tourism: manufacturers have told Government that they want an uninterrupted flow of production between the August bank holiday and Christmas.
2. In country districts flowers are given variously poetic or prosaic names which are derived from some obvious characteristic of the plant itself.
3. Noting in passing how conclusively the "frigifaire paten" rules out any notion of a translation of propertius (unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or "put-down" - and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound's poem in that way), some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order - "Happy who", "Stands genius" - especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted.
4. They slept in the first grey twitterings of dawn, Jay tore herself away to hang the prosaic Do Not Disturb sign on the door.
5. The truth was a little more prosaic.
6. Receiving little help from the clipped dullness of Flor's prosaic conducting, his uneasy fluctuations of tempo in the first movement, and in particular his tendency to rush spasmodically ahead of the beat, suggested a high degree of perhaps understandable nervousness.
7. Must we find all work prosaic
8. Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place, and production control was in the hands of John Baxter, a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety.
9. His deftness with something as prosaic as a cotton bud and bottle of adrenalin might not be everybody's idea of art, but is certainly artful.
10. To go further in these directions would also require more boldly gestural language than Philip Vellacott's plausible, if prosaic translation provides.
11. I will be profoundly relieved when I can escape from the prosaic explanations and defences of this present sprawling mess of words.
12. When his few days at Culbone were over, Coleridge descended again into the prosaic lowland world, and by 14 October was home at Lime Street, gloomy and impoverished.
13. She has work to do indoors and out, and her life is eminently prosaic.