arid的意思|arid的解释-里氏词典

arid ['ærɪd]

a. 干燥的, 不毛的

How can people make a living in this arid area?
这片不毛之地上的人们怎么谋生呢？
He is tired of the arid studies that have produced nothing new.
他对这些没有新意的枯燥乏味的研究感到厌倦。
He jammed his hat on angrily arid went out.
他怒气冲冲地使劲戴上帽子，走了出去。

arid

[ adj ]

lacking sufficient water or rainfall

<adj.all>

an arid climate

a waterless well

miles of waterless country to cross

lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless

<adj.all>

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 \Ar"id\, a. [L. aridus, fr. arere to be dry: cf. F. aride.]
Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. ``An
arid waste.'' --Thomson.

In order to build a series of hydroelectric dams, Turkey today cut the flow of the Eurphrates River to Syria and Iraq in a move that could cause problems for the two arid nations over the next month.
Although the Moche people were primarily agriculturalists, a farming community, successfully turning the arid Lambayeque valley into a fertile oasis, their rituals were bloodthirsty. Moche art routinely depicts military activity.
It is driven dancing, uneasy in manner - the short-breathed musical form may have encouraged this response - and curiously arid.
The Languedoc's most interesting appellation, spread over 11 newly-defined but almost equally rugged terroirs of arid, generally hilly vineyards.
Yilma Kassaye, head of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, said Friday that the drought wiped out crops in the eastern highlands and threatens the lives of livestock in the country's arid southeast.
But green groups will be fighting for tighter curbs. Open channels: Turkey's president Suleyman Demirel opens an irrigation scheme for the arid Harran plain in the south-east of the country.
President Turgut Ozal cut the flow of the Euphrates River with the push of a button Saturday, diverting its waters to a reservoir and raising fears of tension with Turkey's arid downstream neighbors.
Proposals to ease a growing water shortage in the arid Middle East range from building a 1,500-mile pipeline to towing icebergs from Antarctica.
Kandahar sits in the middle of an arid plain that offers little protection from marauding aircraft that have leveled the city's southern suburb of Mahalajat.
But the debt-ridden studio in arid, impoverished northern China also has won more international prizes than any other studio, beginning with Wu's 1987 "Old Well," which won awards in Tokyo and Hawaii.
Most of the land is arid and mountainous, deeply eroded and treeless, allowing little more than subsistence farming.
Across the arid countryside the corn harvest fell by 34 percent from the previous year's bumper crop, soybeans by 21 percent, spring wheat by 54 percent.
"But I'm sorry, this is the best I can do." Prospects are just as grim in the countryside, as the government scales back its ambitions to develop the productive capacity of Kenya's arid and semi-arid regions.
Compared to the arid valley a traveler crosses to get here, much of the Baca is lush, traversed by creeks and shaded by tall trees.
HEAVY RAINS in June have been the signal for generations of farmers, fishermen and herdsmen of Nigeria's north-east arid zone to prepare for the annual floods. But this year around 2m people in Yobe and Borno fear that the floods will not come.
Since Wu became its director in 1983, the debt-ridden studio in arid northwestern China has become a prolific producer of hauntingly beautiful, technically innovative movies that have raised China's standing in the international film community.
The state's moderate, arid climate nourishes nearly perfect amber globes with thick skin for easy peeling and no pockmarks or scars from strong winds.
And while the weather in most of the nation was arid, snowplows worked nearly four hours clearing a foot of hail from Interstate 25 on the north edge of Colorado Springs on Saturday afternoon, the Colorado State Patrol said.
Elsewhere, Zender's serialism is unremittingly arid and cool.
Appolo Lawoko, an employee of the World Food Program, said seven trucks loaded with 210 tons of corn headed for the arid Karamonja region under a military escort.
But this hunt was taking place on a sprawling 40,000-acre chunk of arid central Texas ground called the Y.O. Ranch.
One leading British sports journalist, Brian Glanville, was quoted in the Sunday Times in 1988 as saying: 'I find all of Carr's writing monumentally arid.'
He charged that Dukakis would let "some Washington bureaucracy" make decisions that could adversely affect ranchers and farmers throughout the arid West.
The rebel statement Monday said government troops were withdrawing from the city but made no mention of whether they were being evacuated by sea or were fleeing into the arid countryside.
The president has asked for $1.039 billion, including $616 million in construction outlays, for the Bureau of Reclamation, an agency within the Interior Department that assists in the construction of irrigation reservoirs in the arid West.
Nonetheless, he knew too much about human society to hide behind arid mathematical symbols.
The sequel of sorts to 1971's "The Last Picture Show" opened to arid reviews and empty seats. It made $823,534 for 12th place.
The official, Bachir M. Sayed, said Polisario and Morocco so far have agreed only on the wording of a referendum on the future of Western Sahara, an arid northwest Africa coastal territory, and on how voter eligibility will be decided.
For example, in this warm, arid climate, green onions for eating (scallions) develop from onion sets in a few weeks.
The second was flown by his son, Bertus, a shy geologist. The flight to the desert base camp took three hours - ample time to contemplate the vastness of this arid country, four times the size of Britain but home to only 1.4m people.

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