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。

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。

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。

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。

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能可贵的财富。

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，很商业化，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。