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。

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。

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

对于非生物学家来说，这听起来可能介于神秘和平淡之间。

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

烟斗，你知道，都是些平淡无奇的东西。

But to a prosaic person like me symbolism is often obscure.

但对于像我这样平淡无奇的人来说， 象征主义往往是晦涩难懂的。

The reality, however, is probably more prosaic.

【prosaic】然而，事实很可能更平淡无奇。

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。