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A prolix piece of writing has too many words and is boring. It is not merely long; it is long in a weary way — the writer will not come to the point. You meet the word in book reviews, in teachers’ comments, and in rather formal English. Ordinary people just say too wordy, or it drags. There is a verb, from the same adjective, meaning to go on at that tedious length, but it is rare; the adjective is the form you will actually see. Though actually, a careful writer can be long without being prolix: a long story that earns every page is not prolix, and a short memo that still words can be.
冗長的（文章太囉嗦）
組成From Old French prolixe, from Latin prōlixus, “stretched out” (also “courteous, favourable”). The verb comes from the adjective.
同家族的字
- prolixitythe noun: the quality of going on too long in words
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prolixadj/pɹoʊˈlɪks/
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formalTediously lengthy; dwelling on trivial details.
- "Give me but the luxury of answering to one of his prolix, contradictory speeches, and...I only ask the revenge of a reply."
- People who have blamed [Jean Charles Léonard de] Sismondi as unnecessarily prolix cannot have considered the crowd of details presented by the history of Italy.
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obsoleteLong; having great length.
prolixverb/pɹoʊˈlɪks/
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rareTo be tediously lengthy.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。