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More than any other feature of our technical civilization, these now prosaic flights are emblematic of what powers are now ours.

在所有的科技与文明中，这些史诗般翱翔的飞行器最能展示现在我们已经具有何等的力量。

And the next day, having completed our more prosaic shopping, we set out for Mr. Haha's business address.

第二天，在采购完了那些较平常的原料后，我们出发去哈哈先生的店。

e. g. No, I mean, you know, cabernets can be powerful and exalting too, but they seem prosaic to me, for some reason, by comparison.

我是说，你知道，解百衲葡萄酒也能很强健，喝起来飘飘欲仙，但它们对我来说太平凡了，因为某种原因，相对而言。

Your particular task is quite prosaic, though. You are to develop the memory manager being able to work with a large number of stacks.

你的任务很平凡，是负责内存管理器的开发，使D++能够使用大的栈空间。

That may sound prosaic, but Schuman declared that it was much more than just a business deal.

这种想法听上去单调乏味，但舒曼宣称其意义超过了商业交易。

People said he'd been a pirate, but the truth was more prosaic.

人们说他曾作过海盗，但事实远没那么有传奇性。

While China's historic grievances are never far below the surface when the subject of Japan comes up , more prosaic concerns loom larger .

尽管中国人在日本问题上难免有历史情结，但如今他们也有更为现实的忧虑。

Until just a few years ago it was known by the more prosaic name of Zhongdian.

几年以前它还有一个更有诗性的名字：终点（zhongdian）。

This modeling may be informal or prosaic, as it was in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, or it may be formal, rigorous and mathematical.

这可能是非正式的建模或平淡无奇，因为它是在亚当斯密的国富论，也可能是正式的，严格和数学。

The movie, whose working title is the reassuringly prosaic 'Confucius', has no confirmed release date.

这部电影暂定名为《孔子》，非常普通。目前它还没有确定的放映日期。

At a more prosaic level, who will serve, for better or worse, as a principal voice of a community or region?

而且对普通人来说，还有谁敢于担当一个团体或社区的发言人了呢？

There may be a more prosaic explanation: bumbling governance in a secretive region with opaque leadership.

也许，最终的解释其实很平常：这是在一个政治不透明的地区所实行的装模作样的治理活动。

Can you think of many other executives who would turn something so prosaic into folklore?

你能找到很多其他执行官把一些简单乏味的事情变成习俗吗？

Real life turns out to be closer to Wizard of Oz than A Christmas Carol in the prosaic way it links dark deeds and dark names.

现实生活更贴近《绿野仙踪》，而非《圣诞颂歌》（AChristmasCarol），它以一种平淡的方式，将邪恶行为与邪恶名字联系在一起。

In the prosaic life of disputes, the murder case as the same as a red line running through the middle.

在平淡无奇的生活纠葛里，谋杀案就像一条红线一样，贯穿在中间。

Perhaps the leading theory focuses on a much more prosaic realm: the slimy interface where the sea laps against land.

可能最重要的理论集中在一个平凡得多的领域即在大海和陆地之间黏糊糊的交界面。

Anxious to transform the prosaic into the romantic, his admirers speak of a poet of light and the poetry of silence.

崇拜者们称他为光的诗人，作品中的寂静也充满诗意，他们迫切地想把这单调无奇变成浪漫迷人。

Henry Kissinger feared diplomatic chaos. But the reality was more prosaic.

基辛格（HenryKissinger）曾担心引发外交混乱，然而现实却波澜不惊。

Their salespeople are passionate about their products, however prosaic, and dogged in their determination to open up new markets.

他们的销售人员对产品充满热情，无论工作多么乏味，总是坚贞不屈地去开拓新市场。

Some studies can't be redone for a more prosaic reason: the authors won't make all their raw data available to rival scientists.

一些研究无法重复是由更普通的原因导致的：作者不愿向同行公布所有原始数据。