1.She haggles, she niggles, she wears our patience down with her repetitions and her prolixities.

她讨价还价，吹毛求疵，她的重复和冗长耗尽我们的耐心。机翻

2.8-7a, then the prolixity implicates that Miss X's performance is so poor that the word sing cannot be applied.

如果评论家用的是例8-7b而不是例8-7a，那么他的冗长隐含×小姐的演唱非常糟糕，都不能算“唱”。

3.Mildred dreamt a great deal, and she had an accurate memory for her dreams, which she would relate every day with prolixity.

德德很多梦，她对自己的梦记忆犹新，每天都会滔滔不绝地讲述。机翻

4.The monkey, meanwhile, with a thick tail curling out into preposterous prolixity from beneath his tartans, took his station at the Italian's feet.

与此同时，那只猴子从他的格子呢下伸出一条粗大的尾巴，长得荒唐可笑，站在意大利人脚边。机翻

5.Having recovered from his adventure in prolixity (fifty-nine words were a lot of words in the tight world of William Strunk Jr.), the professor proceeds to give a few quick lessons in pruning.

从冗长的冒险中恢复过来后（在小威廉·斯特伦克的狭隘世界里，五十九个单词是很多单词），教授开始教授一些关于修剪的快速课程。机翻