释义 |
prosily, adv.|ˈprəʊzɪlɪ| [f. prosy + -ly2.] In a prosy manner; with dull and tedious utterance; in a matter-of-fact way, prosaically.
1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies xxiii, This speech, delivered rather prosily and oracularly. 1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. ii. 23 Oak knew her..as the heroine of the yellow waggon..: prosily, as the woman who owed him twopence. |