Other game shows use wives, parents and siblings as advisers or cheerleaders to add some human warmth and humor to a prosaic and not especially taxing contest.

其他节目中，妻子、父母和亲属是作为建议者、啦啦队，用来给不是太激烈的节目增添一些人文关怀和幽默气氛。

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His instructor offered a more prosaic explanation for the surge in interest.

他的老师对利率的急剧上升给出了一个更枯燥乏味的解释。

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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。

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What could be more prosaic than "It is raining?" All of a sudden you notice that string of "i's." You notice all kinds of other things about it.

最基本的意思就是“在下雨“，但是你注意到,“i’s“这个词，你注意到它的相关意义。

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Knausgaard has his own artistic commitment to inexhaustibility a prosaic rather than a painterly one, which manifests itself as a kind of tiring tirelessness.

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But he recently suffered an unusual and expensive setback in a battle involving something more prosaic: a parking garage.

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Instead, it's typically a more prosaic end: humanity wiped out because an AI tasked with a simple goal (say, creating paper clips, an example that is often used) requisitions all the energy and raw materials on Earth to relentlessly churn out paper clips, outsmarting and out-maneuvering all human attempts to stop it.

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