Whether the prosaic chancellor shares these ambitions is unclear .
还不清楚那位作风平淡无奇的德国总理是否认可这些雄心壮志。
They both affected connoisseurship regarding prosaic things such as muffins hamburgers and iced tea .
他们都会对一些平淡无奇的东西报以很深的鉴赏之情,诸如松饼、汉堡和冰茶。
He believes the key to a better net lies with a prosaic black box called a router .
他相信一个更好的网络,关键在于一个平淡无奇称为路由器的黑匣子。
It might seem like just another day in the twitterverse , where prosaic , personal updates stream throughout the day .
在twitterverse上,这似乎和其他的日子没什么区别,平淡无奇的个人信息一直在更新着。
But these days , anthropologists are increasingly trying to study the rituals of the western world , even in prosaic places such as michigan .
但是近来,人类学家越来越多地尝试研究西方世界的习俗,甚至是在密歇根州这样平淡无奇的地区。
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?
The latest research suggests a more prosaic , democratic , even puritanical view of the world .
最新的研究提出了一个更加乏味的,平等的,甚至清教徒式的世界观。
Drivers in honolulu , however , have to put up with a far more prosaic view : brake lights .
然而,檀香山的司机们却不得不忍受比这乏味的多的街景:交通信号灯。
Iceland 's power is trapped in iceland , and if there is something poetic about the idea of trapped power , there is also something prosaic in how the icelanders have come to terms with the problem .
Instead , a more prosaic idea has gained ground , based on what is known as reaction-diffusion pattern formation , in which chemicals that trigger the differentiation of cells in an embryo interact with one another to produce patterns that are then reflected in the fates of nearby cells .