Arid
['ærɪd]
解释:
(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' .
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解释:
(a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
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同义词及近义词：
a. Dry, dried up, parched with heat.
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同义词及反义词：
SYN:Dry, parched, sterile, unproductive
ANT:Moist, dewy, watered, fertile, luxuriant, exuberant, verdant, blooming,productive
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解释:
adj. dry: parched.—ns. Arid′ity Ar′idness.
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例句:
- 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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