Overblown language is also used when the actual business is prosaic.

当实际业务平淡无奇时，人们也会使用夸张的语言。

What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?

还有再比这个更平凡无聊的吗？

A more prosaic explanation is that his condition was psychosomatic.

一种比较符合实际的说法是一种身心疾病。

That was the job of the more prosaic, undecorated tiles covering the whole roof.

那是覆盖整个屋顶、更加普通、有饰的瓦片的工作。

The reality, however, is probably more prosaic.

【prosaic】然而，事实可能更平淡无奇。

So yeah, I... it sounds prosaic, it sounds like being a sort of filing clerk or something for your own work.

这听平淡，就像是给自己的作品做归档分类。

Over a century and a half, Boots had built up a business that serviced the most prosaic aspects of British life.

在一个半世纪的时间里，博姿创办了一家服务于英国人生活中最平淡无奇的方面的公司。

That sounded so prosaic; but to my surprise I found it true.

这听平淡；但令我惊讶的是，我发现这是真的。

To non-biologists, this may sound somewhere between arcane and prosaic.

对于非生物学家说，这听可能介于神秘和平淡之间。

Mets has contribution is more prosaic than this.

Mets的贡献更为朴实无华。

And it wrote a very prosaic 800 word column immediately about why understaffing is bad.

它立即写了一篇非常平实的800字专栏文，解释为什么人员不足是不好的。

A chunk was spent on prosaic fare, such as warehouses, office buildings and data centres.

一大笔钱被用于普通的开支，比如仓库、办公楼和数据中心。

Many hacks have more prosaic concerns, chiefly about their jobs.

许多黑客更关心的是他们自己的工作问题。

The authors attribute Tokyo's success to prosaic policy choices rather than an abstract national essence.

作者将东京的成功归功于平淡无奇的政策选择，而不是抽象的民族本质。

Pipes, you know, all the kind of like prosaic stuff.

管道，你知道，就是那种普通的玩意儿。

It diverted her enormously to hear occult matters discussed with apparent gravity in this prosaic tavern.

在这个平淡无奇的小酒馆里听到表面上严肃地讨论神秘事物， 这让她分心了。

Happiness and sorrow, despair and hope were there, but all encompassed by the heavy tedium of prosaic sameness.

幸福和悲伤， 绝望和希望都在那里，但都被平淡无奇的千篇一律所包围。

I prefer the agonizing psychological abuse of this trauma bond to the prosaic tedium of a regular life.

我宁愿承受这种创伤纽带带的痛苦心理虐待，也不愿面对普通生活中的平淡乏味。

So the expert blind spot is much more prosaic seeming than this point that you were just making.

所以专家盲点看要比你刚才提到的这一点更为平凡。

It may sound prosaic, and unimaginative and dry, but you'll find that it wears in the long run.

这听可能平淡无奇、缺乏想象力且枯燥乏味， 但从长远看， 您会发现它是经久不衰的。