2ADJ-GRADED [usually ADJ n]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. 枯燥无味的;乏善可陈的
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.