Dry, academic, formal, lecture-style writing is usually the WORST formof learning content.

枯燥的、书卷气的、正式的、说教风格的文字经常是 最糟糕 的学习材料。

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He also set an extraordinary standard for clear, dry, witty writing.

他还为清晰、平易、诙谐的文风树立了典范。

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The pen has run dry three times in writing a short address.

在写这么短的地址之时，笔尖上的墨水就干了三次。

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His first job, in a general trading firm in Warsaw, involved him writing letters in Yiddish about the price of dry goods, but alongside this he knew a charmed existence close to nature in the wilds of north-eastern Poland, hunting or just tracking a legendary variety of game.

ECONOMIST: Memoirs

Forbes was well established as a financial newspaperman who wanted to go beyond the dry numbers that were the stock in trade of his contemporaries' writing.

FORBES: The Inaugurative Forbes Magazine