音标:[brәu'midik] ;
a. 陈腐的, 无聊的
a. given to uttering bromides
s. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality

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able whackets
access key organization
aerometric measurement
altispinax
ametryn
amidopyrine test
anion-exchange chromatography
antitubercular drug
automatic logistrip
black root of tobacco
body-packer
brinkwood
calostoma raveneliis
cardinal spider
charered ship
chia ling p'in
Chignecto Isthmus
Claudius' fossae
CMESA
dazzle lamp
dies non juridicus
drilling cutings
dynamic stability index
enithares sinica
ethylenediaminetetraacetate
external transmit clock
forbidden zone of cloud formation
fresh water arrival draft
fusariella formosana
gelidiella acerosa
gingival col
glueily
ground-statest
heliometers
high brightness slide projector
horsemarket
Höskuldsstadhir
in pup
instantaneous reaction
integral square error approximation
itinerant merchant
Khunzakhskiy Rayon
kristol
lebovitz
Lendl
liquid-solid quilibrium
m. triceps sur?
mealy bug
meta-theoretical analysis
mortgageless
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
multieffect evaporator
near-end operated terminal
network teletype
NIHF
nonsurety
nozzle block
off axis parabolic mirror
organocadmium
Oswe
overstien
parallel misalignment
Peacock Pt.
peat deposit
pendant-type air hoist
philine otukai
pinlock
point of self-oscillation
pontopeduncular
preterga
prism cruising
PyNPase
raft of pontoons
Rami spinales
real data type
realtionships
reasonedly
ring translator
rondnesse
rotary aircraft
sacral vertebras
Sapindaceidites
strategises
target signature
therocephalian
thiaminase
tmpf
tolmond
total receipt
transoceanic communication
tribromo-dichloroethane
Tsukisamu
turn ... in
tutoyers
undeclining
USTV
water-to-steam ratio
white topaz
William Hogarth
wing-case
work sheet method
Zeissel's layer