ADJ-GRADED
枯燥无味的；乏善可陈的
If you describe something such as a period of your life or an academic subject as arid, you mean that it has so little interest, excitement, or purpose that it makes you feel bored or unhappy.
例句
She had given him the only joy his arid life had ever known.
她为他枯燥无味的生活带来了从未有过的乐趣。
...the politically arid years of military dictatorship in the 1960s and '70s.
在20世纪60和70年代军事独裁期间政事荒芜的岁月