Prose
[prəʊz] or [proz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) ordinary writing as distinguished from verse.
(noun.) matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression.
迪尔德丽手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
(n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
(a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
(v. t.) To write in prose.
(v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
(v. i.) To write prose.
編輯:马克斯
解釋/意思:
n. the direct straightforward arrangement of words free from poetical measures: ordinary spoken and written language: all writings not in verse.—adj. pertaining to prose: not poetical: plain: dull.—v.i. to write prose: to speak or write tediously.—v.t. to compose in prose.—ns. Prose′-man Prō′ser Prose′-writ′er a writer of prose.—adv. Prō′sily in a prosy manner: tediously.—ns. Prō′siness the state or quality of being prosy; Prō′sing speaking or writing in a dull or prosy way.—adj. Prō′sy dull tedious.
校對:凯尔西
例句/造句/用法:
- But those who like Peter Featherstone never had a copy of themselves demanded, are the very last to wait for such a request either in prose or verse. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It is not prose but poetry, at least a great part of it, and ought not to be judged by the rules of logic or the probabilities of history. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- You prose great deal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It is a sort of prologue to the play, a motto to the chapter; and will be soon followed by matter-of-fact prose. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Talking of which, Veneering, why don't you prose, for you haven't opened your lips there yet, and we are dying to hear what you have got to say to us! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You have a new crop of prose writers. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- In short, said Caddy cheerily, and not to prose, I am a very fortunate girl and ought to be very grateful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It is not my intention to dwell on Meyler's love or Meyler's raptures, since such subjects in prose are very prosy. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I hope you believe in the very strong interest I take, and always shall take, in your welfare: so I need not prose about it. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- And where did you ever see a stupid, prosing poet, who did feel his own inferiority? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Come, said I, we shall be late, if you stand prosing there. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Every morning of my life I was entertained with his lordship's prosing about Sophia. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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