arid

英 ['?r?d] 美['?r?d]

反義詞

TEM4CET6+GRETOEFL低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

名詞:?aridity;

arid 干旱的

來(lái)自詞根ar, 同ard, 火，燒。

arid: arid: [17] English acquired arid from Latin aridus, either directly or via French aride. The Latin adjective is part of a web of related words denoting ‘dryness’ or ‘burning’: it came from the verb ārēre ‘be dry’, which may be the source of area; it seems to have connections with a prehistoric Germanic *azgon, source of English ash ‘burnt matter’, and with Greek azaléos ‘dry’, source of English azalea [18] (so named from its favouring dry soil); and the Latin verb ardēre ‘burn’ was derived from it, from which English gets ardour [14], ardent [14], and arson.
=> ardour, area, arson, ash, azalea
arid (adj.): 1650s, "dry, parched," from French aride (15c.) or directly from Latin aridus "dry, arid, parched," from arere "to be dry," from PIE root *as- "to burn, glow" (see ash (n.1)). Figurative sense of "uninteresting" is from 1827. Related: Aridly.

1. Many black Namibians are subsistence farmers who live in the arid borderlands.: 許多生活在土地貧瘠的邊境地區(qū)的納米比亞黑人農(nóng)場(chǎng)主的收成僅夠維持自身的口糧。

3. These trees will shield off arid winds and protect the fields.: 這些樹能擋住旱風(fēng),保護(hù)農(nóng)田.