2.Looking at this two pictures,we can see clearly that Dao's style in Ming Dynasty was swellish,but in Qing Dynasty was ponderous.This post is good for comparing.
3.Her recent graduation from a skinny piccaninny with brief skirts and stiffly wrapped braids into the dignity of a long calico dress and starched white turban was an intoxicating affair.
16.Marcus thought it was " wooden and uninspired." " Uninspired" is the opposite of " inspired" ;" uninspired" would mean dull, uninteresting, not exciting, not original.
Marcus 认为它是“、没有灵感” 。 “没有灵感” 是“有灵感” 反义词; “没有灵感” 意味着沉闷、无趣、不令兴奋、不新颖。机翻
18.What was poetical and sensuous has become prosy and wooden; instead of the secret sounds of beauty, we are left with the simple crunch of mastication.
19.The progressive state is, in reality, the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society; the stationary is dull; the declining melancholy.
20.In fact, creativity, which I define as the process of having original ideas that have value, more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.