请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 prose
释义
prose
(prz )
uncountable noun [oft poss NOUN, in NOUN]
Prose is ordinary written language, in contrast to poetry.
Shute's prose is stark and chillingly unsentimental.
What he has to say is expressed in prose of exceptional lucidity and grace.
Quotations:
Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best orderSamuel Taylor ColeridgeTable Talk
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of itJeremy Bentham
All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is proseMolièreLe Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Collocations:
piece of prose
There's nothing wrong with long sentences, properly punctuated: if a piece of prose comprised only staccato sentences it would be tedious to read.
Times, Sunday Times
In each instance, we will relate the visit to a poem or piece of prose.
The Times Literary Supplement
It was his first piece of prose fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
I had no idea that so many of them thought it so fundamental to the art of reviewing that photos of everything be attached to each piece of prose.
Times, Sunday Times
We take as much care with our cyber chat-up lines as we would a piece of prose.
Times, Sunday Times
prose stylist
You don't need a literary agent, you don't even need to be a brilliant prose stylist, and — most shockingly of all — you don't need a publisher.
Times, Sunday Times
As a prose stylist, there are few to match him in recent fiction, and this absorbing novel shows him at the height of his powers.
Times, Sunday Times
He was a gifted prose stylist whose writing tended to lapse into hectoring didacticism or turgid pomposity.
Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, he was a prose stylist of genius, if that counts for anything any more.
Times, Sunday Times
As he himself came to realize, he was a much more talented prose stylist than poet.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
vivid prose
In direct, vivid prose, she shows us what it feels like when a family gets on the wrong side of a stifling political regime.
Times, Sunday Times
He compensates for this with a colourful palette of vivid prose and a dash of imaginative reconstruction.
The Times Literary Supplement
Her memories of this period are narrated in typically vivid prose.
The Times Literary Supplement
But that book in just vivid prose told the story of the horse.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
Its tone was direct and authentic, and its simple but vivid prose contrasted with the more laboured literary style of the day.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
write prose
He did not write prose - in a weak moment, having agreed to write something other than verse, he eked out a statement explaining why he would never write prose again.
The Times Literary Supplement
She continued to write prose during the period of her marriage.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
The audience will hear the advocate's speech just once, so it needs to be very clear (clearer than written prose) in thought and expression.
Times, Sunday Times
Experiences and happenings were preserved only after hours of effort painting, drawing or writing prose, and even then, with striking imperfection.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
So far, seven poets have contributed to the project, each one writing prose until it’s time to hand the poem off to his or her successor.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
Translations:
Chinese: 散文
Japanese: 散文
随便看

 

英语词典包含147115条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/15 13:45:29