"an arid climate"
"a waterless well"
"miles of waterless country to cross"
lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless;
"a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"
"a desiccate romance"
"a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"
arid的用法和樣例:
例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
The broom grows down the arid sandhill. 金雀草蔓延在乾燥的沙丘下。
It is difficult to grow fruit in arid desert areas. 在乾燥的沙漠地帶栽培水果很困難。
How can people make a living in this arid area? 這片不毛之地上的人們怎麼謀生呢?
The audience soon grew tired of his arid speech. 沒多久聽眾對他枯燥無味的演說就感到厭膩了。
He is tired of the arid studies that have produced nothing new. 他對這些沒有新意的枯燥乏味的研究感到厭倦。