| 释义 | turgidly adverb
 formaluk /ˈtɜː.dʒɪd.li/ us /ˈtɝː.dʒɪd.li/
 in a way that is boring and too serious: 枯燥乏味地;太严肃地
 The book is turgidly written, and stuffed with footnotes and appendixes.这本书写得枯燥乏味,里面塞满了脚注和附录。
 The book was so turgidly written it was scarcely read even by his most earnest followers.
 His prose reads turgidly at times.
 This kind of data is fascinating to experts, and turgidly boring to everyone else.
 The film is a turgidly self-important psychological labyrinth.
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Lacking humour
 a laugh a minuteidiom
 be no laughing matteridiom
 beyond
 beyond a jokeidiom
 earnestly
 earnestness
 humourlessly
 intense
 lightly
 saturnine
 sober
 soberly
 solemnity
 sombrely
 sombreness
 starchy
 straight-facedly
 turgid
 turgidity
 ultra-serious
 
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