arid

詞根：arid

n.

aridity 乾旱；乏味

aridness 乾燥 ^[1] 

arid area 乾旱區

arid region 乾旱區域，乾旱地區；乾燥區

arid land n. 旱地；貧瘠地

arid climate 乾旱地帶；乾燥氣候

semi arid adj. 半乾燥的

arid zone 乾旱帶 ^[1] 

Many Namibians are subsistence farmers who live in the arid borderlands. 許多納米比亞人都是自給自足的農民，居住在乾旱的邊境地區。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

Twenty million years ago, Idaho was not the arid place it is now. Rather, it was warm and damp, populated by dense primordial forest. 2000萬年前，愛達荷州不像現在這樣乾旱。確切地説，它那時温暖潮濕，生長着茂密的原始森林。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

Regularly flowing rivers and streams that originate within arid lands are known as "endogenous". 起源於乾旱地區的流動性河流和溪流通常被稱為“內源河流”。 ^[1]