2. The police are proverbially inquisitive. 众所周知,警察喜欢追根究底。
3. He is a proverbially dour New England Puritan. 他是个众所周知的抑郁的新英格兰清教徒。
4. Minute fragments of shoot apices are proverbially difficult to culture. 微小的茎尖切段通常是难以培养的。
5. The technique of curve fitting is used proverbially for the image processing, reverse engineering, test data processing, etc. 曲线拟合技术在图像处理、逆向工程以及测试数据的处理等领域中的应用越来越广泛。