arid
- adj. 干旱的；不毛的，[农] 荒芜的
英英释意
- 1. lacking sufficient water or rainfall;
- "an arid climate"
- "a waterless well"
- "miles of waterless country to cross"
- 2. 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"-C.J.Rolo