boring/arid/dreary/dry/dull/monotonous.导航词义：乏味的，无聊的

1. boring:adj. 令人厌烦的；乏味的，无聊的.普通用词，指某事物或某人因毫无趣味、吸引力而让人感到乏味的、无聊的。

The lesson was long and boring.

这一课又臭又长。

The job is boring.

这项工作枯燥乏味。

He was a boring nuisance!

他这人真讨厌！

2. arid:adj. 无新意的，无趣的.指某事物毫无趣味的，也指缺乏令人心动的特征或品质的。

arid scientific studies

枯燥的科学研究

The audience soon grew tired of his arid speech.

没多久听众就对他枯燥无味的演说感到厌烦了。

3. dreary:adj. 沉闷的，令人生厌的.指事物了无趣味、使人感到厌烦或沮丧的。

dreary work

乏味的工作

He is tired of the politician's dreary speech.

他厌倦了那个政客的枯燥演讲。

4. dry:adj. 干巴巴的，枯燥乏味的.指书籍、讲话、话题等干巴巴的、生硬的、缺乏幽默的，有时含贬义。

a dry debate on diplomatic policies

关于外交政策的乏味辩论

A book full of figures is rather dry.

一本满是数据的书读起来很枯燥乏味。

5. dull:adj. 乏味的，无趣的.作此义解时，通常只能用来形容事物，指因缺乏新鲜感、吸引力而显得乏味、沉闷的。

He doesn't believe that it will be a dull party.

他认为那不会是一次乏味的聚会。

This book is rather dull.

这本书很枯燥。

6. monotonous:adj. 单调的，乏味的.指没有变化、重复单调的。

a monotonous job/voice

单调的工作/声音

It is one of the most monotonous sounds of the spring.

这是春天里最单调的声音之一。

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1·The lake had been pumped dry.

湖水已被抽干。《牛津词典》

2·Pat it dry with a soft towel.

用柔软的毛巾将它轻轻拍干。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The grass was dry and patchy.

草都干了，东一片西一片的。《牛津词典》

4·His skin was dry and flaking.

他的皮肤干燥，脱皮屑。《牛津词典》

5·I'll wash and you can dry up.

我洗盘子，你可以擦干。《牛津词典》

6·Now the river bed is bone dry.

目前河床十分干燥。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

7·My mouth felt completely dry.

我感到口干舌燥。《牛津词典》

8·Her lips were dry and cracked.

她的嘴唇干裂了。《牛津词典》

9·Dry wood makes a good blaze.

干木柴烧得旺。《牛津词典》

10·He owns a dry cleaning business.

他做干洗生意。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

干

1·The lake had been pumped dry.

湖水已被抽干。《牛津词典》

2·The house was riddled with dry rot.

屋子因木材干腐而变得千疮百孔。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·She nibbled at a piece of dry toast.

她小口啃着一片干面包。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Pat your face dry with a soft towel.

用软毛巾把脸搌干。《牛津词典》

5·Her throat felt dry and constricted.

她感到喉咙发干发紧。《牛津词典》

干燥

1·The region is too dry for plants to grow.

这地区干燥得草木不生。《牛津词典》

2·She took a sip of water to moisten her dry throat.

她抿了一小口水，润一润自己干燥的喉咙。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·When the soil is dry, more moisture is lost from the plant.

土壤干燥时，植物就会失去更多的水分。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·The dry summer has magnified the problem of water shortages.

干燥的夏季加剧了缺水的问题。《牛津词典》

5·It was a surprisingly dry day after the rain of the previous week.

这是继前一周的降雨之后出奇干燥的一天。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

干旱

1·There has been a long spell of dry weather.

干旱天气已持续很长一段时间了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The camel's feet, well adapted for dry sand, are useless on mud.

骆驼的脚十分适合干旱沙地，但在泥地上毫无用处。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Exceptionally dry weather over the past year had cut agricultural production.

过去一年里异常干旱的气候降低了农业产量。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Contained within the rock strata is evidence that the region was intensely dry 15,000 years ago.

岩层中的证据表明该地区在15,000 年前曾经非常干旱。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·But in Indonesia, extremely dry forests are in flames.

但在印度尼西亚，极度干旱的森林正熊熊燃烧。

干涸

1·Death valley is this desert plain, a dry lake bed in California surrounded by mountains and on the desert floor these huge rocks, some of them hundreds of pounds.

死亡谷是一片沙漠平原，是加利福尼亚的一个干涸的湖床，四周群山环绕，在沙漠的地面上有巨大的岩石，有些重达数百磅。

2·In particularly wet years, short stretches of an otherwise dry stream-bed may have flowing water because the water table rises to intersect the land surface.

在气候特别湿润的年月里，平常干涸的河床下游可能会有水流动，因为地下水在那里位抬升到了地表以上。

3·He had finally decided on settling the still on a dry ridge, away from any of the mountain streams, and pipe the water to where it was needed.

他最后决定把蒸馏器安置在一个干涸的山脊上，远离山间溪水，用管道将水引到需要用水的地方。

4·Six years after her Jim's death she had entered a dry and blank space where she seemed to need to do something, but couldn't tell what.

她的(老公)吉姆离世六年后，她的心境可以用“干涸与空洞”来形容。她想她似乎需要做些什么，可她也不知道要做什么。

5·Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is a great symbol in Aboriginal traditions, as are many sacred sites among the Centre's mountain ranges, gorges, dry riverbeds, and spinifex plains.

乌努努，也被称作艾尔斯巨石，和其他该区域的中心山脉，峡谷，干涸的河床以及并刺平原一样，在澳洲土著人的传统中是神圣的象征。

擦干

1·You wash the dishes and I'll dry.

你洗盘子，我来擦干。《牛津词典》

2·Without bothering to dry off, I pulled on my bathrobe.

我懒得擦干身子，就穿上了浴衣。

3·Dry your tears now, darling, I must ask you something.

擦干你的眼泪吧，亲爱的，我必须问你一件事。

4·After a while, she said, Alice! Stop crying! Crying doesn't help! Dry your tears immediately! When she looked at the table again, she saw a small glass box under it.

过了一会儿，她说：“爱丽丝！别哭了！哭没有帮助！快擦干眼泪！”当她再次看桌子时，她看到桌子下面有一个小玻璃盒子。

5·Should I wash or dry?

我应该洗还是应该擦干？

干性

1·If you have dry skin, you might prefer a cream - especially for your face.

如果你是干性皮肤，你可能更喜欢霜，尤其用于脸上时。

2·In case, you suffer from dry and itchy skin, massage your face and other exposed arms and legs with pure almond oil. This oil nourishes your skin and removes scars and blemishes.

如果，你的皮肤是干性和发痒的，用纯杏仁油按摩你的脸和其他暴露的胳膊和腿，这个滋润你的皮肤和除去伤痕和瑕疵。

3·What It's Like : Some areas are oily — often the forehead, nose and chin — while others, such as your cheeks, are normal to dry.

皮肤特点： 有些部位的皮肤是油性的—通常是前额、鼻子和下巴—而其他部位却通常是干性的，比如双颊。

4·If you're suffering from dry skin, then caring for it is one of your most important concerns.

如果你是干性皮肤，那么精心的呵护皮肤就是你的头等大事了。

5·Dehydrated skin can be tight, flaky and sore; it isn't lacking in oil, though, as dry skin is, but in water.

缺水性皮肤可能会紧绷，掉屑和刺痛；但它并不像干性皮肤一样缺油，而是缺水。

干式

1·The behavior of the start up process of dry gas seal (DGS), which has great significance in engineering was studied based on the steady state analysis.

鉴于干式气体密封启动过程的重要工程意义，基于稳态分析方法研究了该种密封的开启特性。

2·For dry switches, the contact resistance is inversely related to the contact area.

对于干式开关，接触电阻与接触面积成反比关系。

3·This paper analyzes and summarizes on the basis of the monographic study research of dry load apparatus.

本论文是在专项研究课题“干式负荷装置研究”基础上的分析和总结。

4·Objective to compare a dry laser printer with that of a paper printer to know if it is influenced on diagnostic accuracy of the fracture images.

目的比较纸介医用图像和干式激光片在骨折中的诊断结果，明确不同图像介质对骨折诊断准确性是否存在影响。

5·The result has indicated that dry tapping is a great future green machining process.

结果表明：干式攻丝是一种很有前途的绿色制造工艺技术。

枯燥

1·My eyelids were drooping over the dry, academic phrases.

这些枯燥乏味的学术用语让我的眼皮直向下耷拉。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Now he lapsed into suffering again, as the dry argument was resumed.

现在，当枯燥无味的讲道重新开始时，他又陷入了痛苦之中。

3·The dry statistics ought to inform the ongoing deficit debate, because a budget is not just a catalog of programs and taxes.

这些枯燥的统计数据应该会为正在进行的赤字辩论提供信息，因为预算不仅仅是项目和税收的目录。

4·But, dry and scientific though it may be, the report is also a platform for propaganda.

然而，尽管该报告是枯燥和科学性质的，但它仍然是一个宣传平台。

5·The Quantum Universe is not a dry undergraduate text book, but nor is it a particularly easy read.

《量子宇宙》不是一本枯燥的本科教科书，也不是一本特别容易的读物。

燥

1·Current density: unit under the plating area under current, usually the higher current density film thickness is thicker, but is high coating will scorched thick dry.

电流密度：单位电镀面积下所承受的电流，通常电流密度越高膜厚越厚，但是过高时镀层会烧焦粗燥。

2·Although my mood of now, such as this blazing hot weather, annoyed, float dry.

虽然我现在的心境，就如这炎热的天气，烦闷，浮燥。

3·Festival noise, dry immobile state of mind, indulge in boring, all these so-called relaxation are the kind of misty, so that mind can not be docked.

节日的喧嚣，燥动的心境，放纵的无聊，原来这些所谓的放松都是那样的缥缈，让心无法停靠。

4·Did not catch up, not urgent but not dry, but steadily from the water or slow or illness to withdraw fishing rod, and then the next bait.

没有钓上来的，不急不燥，只是稳稳地从水中或慢或疾地抽回钓杆，然后再下饵。

5·Just the sunshine, the breeze not dry, you are smile, really want to with you to the old, just like that.

阳光正好，微风不燥，你也在笑，真想就这样伴你到老。

(1)in the dry在干的地方；在不受雨淋的地方

(1)on the dry[口语]在戒酒的

(1)run dry不产奶

(1)dry skin干性皮肤

(1)dry matter干物质，固形物

(1)dry land旱地