Wegener proposed the continental drift theory.
魏格纳提出了大陆漂移说
My sister and I reclined and let our little rowboat drift out onto the lake.
我的妹妹和我斜倚着，让我们的小舟在湖面漂泊。
The storm's violent waves would have caused separate pieces floating even briefly on the surface to drift apart.
风暴猛烈的海浪会使漂浮在海面上的碎片漂流分离。
The answer might involve their offspring, which in their larval form drift in the currents to colonize new vents.
答案可能与它们以幼虫形式随着洋流漂流到新的喷气口的后代有关。
Offshore platforms may also lose oil, creating oil slicks that drift ashore and foul the beaches, harming the environment.
近海勘探平台也可能会泄露石油，这样会导致油膜的形成，这些油膜漂流到海岸上而且会污染海滩，从而破坏了环境。
It was apparent that the glaciation occurred in the relatively recent past because the drift was soft, like freshly deposited sediment.
很明显冰川作用就发生在相对不远的过去，因为漂流物很软，像新鲜的沉积物。
In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth's continents were mobile.
1912年，阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳在一个被称为“大陆漂移”的理论中提出，地球上的大陆是可移动的。
Earth's internal heat, fueled by radioactivity, provides the energy for plate tectonics and continental drift, mountain building, and earthquakes.
地球内部因放射而产生的热量为板块运动、大陆漂移、造山运动和地震提供了能量。
This drift has been studied extensively in many animals and in biological activities ranging from the hatching of fruit fly eggs to wheel running by squirrels.
在许多动物中，以及在诸如果蝇卵的孵化乃至松鼠跑动的转轮这样的生物活动中，这种变化趋势一直受到广泛的研究。
Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor.
例如，斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德认为，大陆漂移理论之所以被否决，是因为它没有解释大陆是如何穿过明显很坚固的海底的。
My German isn't very good, but I got the drift of what she said.
我的德语不太好，但我大致明白她说的意思。
As rural factories lay off workers, people drift toward the cities.
随着乡镇企业裁员，人们陆续移向城市。
Amy thought she caught the faintest drift of Isabel's flowery perfume.
艾米觉得她闻到了伊莎贝尔身上飘来的一丝极微弱的带花香的香水味。
A nine-year-old boy was trapped in a snow drift.
一个9岁的男孩陷在雪堆里了。
Tom presently began to drift insensibly back into the concerns of this life again.
不久，汤姆又不知不觉地回到了现实生活中来。
Guided by science, we do not drift off course anymore but further pursue other sophisticated technologies with purpose.
在科学的指导下，我们不再迷失方向，而是更有目的地进一步追求其他的精良技术。
As the nation moves further into the Obama presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his agenda, or will they gradually drift away?
随着美国进一步进入奥巴马的总统任期，参与政治的年轻人会继续支持总统和他的议程，还是他们会逐渐远离？
Here and there a drift across the road was wet and slushy.
路上有零零散散的积雪，满是泥泞。
Too late he divined her "drift".
当他明白她的用意时，为时已晚。
If the ash cloud were to drift in another direction, flights could be sent around or above it.
届时如果火山灰云飘向另一个方向，飞机可能会被指示绕开或在其上方飞行。
Go to an American home in exurbia, and the first thing you do is to drift toward the picture window.
到郊外的美国人家里做客，你做的第一件事就是，情不自禁地移步到落地窗前。
Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011.
为了应对广告的减少和街角销售的下滑，《纽约时报》打算在2011年初引进一种“计量”模型。
The leaves drift in the storm.
树叶在暴风雨中飘动。
One must have one's own opinions and not drift with the current.
遇事要有主见，决不能随波逐流。
One must have one's own opinions and not drift with the current.
遇事要有主见，决不能随波逐流。
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