Prose

(noun.) ordinary writing as distinguished from verse.

(noun.) matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression.

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• 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. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• You prose great deal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is a sort of prologue to the play, a motto to the chapter; and will be soon followed by matter-of-fact prose. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• 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! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You have a new crop of prose writers. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• In short, said Caddy cheerily, and not to prose, I am a very fortunate girl and ought to be very grateful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is not my intention to dwell on Meyler's love or Meyler's raptures, since such subjects in prose are very prosy. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• 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. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And where did you ever see a stupid, prosing poet, who did feel his own inferiority? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Come, said I, we shall be late, if you stand prosing there. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Every morning of my life I was entertained with his lordship's prosing about Sophia. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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