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。

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、没有装饰的瓦片的工作。

The reality, however, is probably more prosaic.

【prosaic】然而，事实很可能更平淡无奇。

With over-prominent ears and a prosaic hair-cut, Dale Carnegie was almost the anti-type of what we imagine a great and centrally important writer might be like.

戴尔·卡内基有着过于突出的耳朵和平淡无奇的发型，他几乎是我们想象中伟大而重要的作家的反面。

Sounds pretty prosaic, pretty commercial, doesn't it? Yet paradoxically enough, Disraeli's marriage was one of the most glowing successes in all the battered and bespattered annals of matrimony.

这桩婚事听起来似乎缺乏浪漫色彩，很商业，不是吗？然而，看似不怎么合乎情理的结合，其结局却是：在那些或千疮百孔、或污渍斑斑的人类婚姻生活史中，迪斯累里和寡妇玛丽·安的结合堪称绵长、闪亮。

They vary from the delight that megafauna provide those visiting a safari park to the more prosaic: pollinators fertilising crops; earthworms keeping the soil healthy.

包括大型动为参观野生动园的游客带来的愉悦，也包括一些更平淡的用处：传昆虫给农作，蚯蚓保持土壤健康。

Companies in prosaic industries are trying to concoct purpose statements that give people a reason to come into work that goes beyond paying the rent.

普通行业的公司正编造关于意义的声明，让人们有除了赚钱付房租以外的上班理由。

As things turned out, the contrasting styles of his predecessors may have made Mr Biden's deeply prosaic register an asset after all.

事实证明，与前任总统们截然不同的风格竟然可能使拜登平淡无奇的语体风格变成难能可贵的财富。

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

这听起来很平淡，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.

这听起来很平淡；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.

对于非生学家来说，这听起来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字专栏文章，解释为什么人员不足是不好的。

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，就是那种很普通的玩意儿。

More prosaic, but not less charming, is an inscription on a rock in the plain, " the place of the three smiles, " because there some mandarins, meeting to drink and converse, told three peculiarly funny stories.

平原上一块岩石上的题词“三个微笑的地方” 更平淡但同样迷人， 因为那里有一些官员聚在一起喝酒聊天， 讲述了三个特别有趣的故事。