Arid

(adj.) 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 .

(adj.) lacking sufficient water or rainfall; 'an arid climate'; 'a waterless well'; 'miles of waterless country to cross' .

杰西卡校对

• Does he live on this arid peak? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It is a scorching, arid, repulsive solitude. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I often walked all day, through the burning noon and the arid afternoon, and the dusk evening, and came back with moonrise. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Guayule is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The arid island of Malta came in sight, and they saw its precipitous shores rising sternly from the tideless waters. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• So too was Arid?us, the weak-minded half-brother (see § 2). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• An hour later found us in the time-rounded gullies of the hills, amid the beautiful flowering plants that abound in the arid waste places of Barsoom. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I am, sir, even I who dislike such arid chips of wisdom; but 'tis an excellent proverb, which has borne the wear and tear of centuries. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• My arid heart revives; my affliction is lightened; my strait and struggle are gone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The same has been done in the arid region of the United States. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Alexander had a brother of weak intellect, Arid?us, whom the Persian governor of Caria sought as a son-in-law. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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