adrift

英 [əˈdrɪft]

美 [əˈdrɪft]

adj.  漂浮; 漂流; 漫无目的; 随波逐流; 漂泊无依; 脱开; 松开

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Collins.1 / BNC.13865 / COCA.14510

习惯用语

adj.

cast/set sb adrift
• 使漂流
  to leave sb to be carried away on a boat that is not being controlled by anyone
• Without language human beings are cast adrift.
  人无语言则茫然无依。

牛津词典

adj.

• 漂浮；漂流
  if a boat or a person in a boat is adrift , the boat is not tied to anything or is floating without being controlled by anyone
  1. The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days.
     幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• 漫无目的；随波逐流；漂泊无依
  feeling alone and without a direction or an aim in life
  1. young people adrift in the big city
     在大城市漂泊的年轻人
• 脱开；松开
  no longer attached or fixed in the right position
  1. I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift .
     我的呼吸器上的管子脱落时，我差一点窒息。
  2. She had been cut adrift from everything she had known.
     她曾被迫与她熟悉的一切切断关系。
  3. Our plans had gone badly adrift.
     我们的计划已严重受挫。
• 分数落后；排名在后
  behind the score or position of your opponents
  1. The team are now just six points adrift of the leaders.
     现在该队得分比领先的队只落后六分。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 漂浮着的;漂流着的
  If a boat isadrift, it is floating on the water and is not tied to anything or controlled by anyone.
  1. They were spotted after three hours adrift in a dinghy.
     他们在小舢板上漂浮了3个小时后才被发现。
• ADJ-GRADED 茫然的；无所适从的
  If someone isadrift, they feel alone with no clear idea of what they should do.
  1. Amy had the growing sense that she was adrift and isolated.
     埃米愈发感到自己孤立无援，孑然一身。
• ADJ 脱落的；脱开的
  If something comesadrift, it is no longer attached to an object that it should be part of.
  1. Three insulating panels had come adrift from the base of the vehicle.
     车子底盘的3块隔热板已经脱落了。
• ADJ-GRADED 分数落后的;排名在后的
  In sporting competitions, if a team or a player isadrift oftheir rivals, they are behind them, usually by a specified number of points or by a specified distance.
  1. Aberdeen are nine points adrift of Rangers at the top of the Scottish League.
     在苏格兰足球联赛中，亚伯丁队比排在首位的流浪者队落后9分。
• ADJ-GRADED 出了问题的
  If something has goneadrift, it is no longer happening in the way that was intended.
  1. We have seen this as an attempt to place the blame for a policy that has gone adrift.
     我们已经认识到，这是把责任归咎于一项已偏离方向的政策的一种企图。

英英释义

adv

• off course, wandering aimlessly
  1. there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift
• floating freely
  1. the boat wasset adrift

双语例句

• Aberdeen are nine points adrift of Rangers at the top of the Scottish League.
  在苏格兰足球联赛中，亚伯丁队比排在首位的流浪者队落后9分。
• With his head spinning in pain, he found himself adrift on the tiny bamboo raft.
  他的头在痛苦中旋转着，他发现自己漂浮在小竹笺上。
• The magician survived, but he found himself adrift on a piece of wreckage with the bird.
  魔术师幸免于难，但却发现自己和这只鹦鹉漂浮在同一块残骸上。
• Albert Einstein suggested long ago that we are adrift in a universe filled with waves from space.
  阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦在很久以前发现，我们漂泊在充满着空间波动的宇宙中。
• Part of the car's bumper had come adrift.
  汽车的保险有一处松动了。
• He turns you adrift on the world with surprising alacrity.
  他以令人惊奇的喜爱任你在世上漂泊。
• The top of your pen is going adrift and will soon fall.
  你的笔帽松了，很快就要掉了。
• Peters had been adrift and aimless
  彼得斯曾经漫无目的地四处漂泊。
• When we awoke, we were adrift on the open sea.
  醒过来的时候，我们在大海上漂流着。
• No one was going to set her and her people adrift on the charity of relatives.
  谁也休想使她和家里的人外出漂流，去靠亲戚们的施舍过活。