英英释义
adrift [ ə'drift ]
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adj.
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aimlessly drifting
同义词： afloat(p) aimless directionless planless rudderless undirected
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afloat on the surface of a body of water
"after the storm the boats were adrift"
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aimlessly drifting
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adv.
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floating freely; not anchored
"the boat wasset adrift"
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off course, wandering aimlessly
"there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift"
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floating freely; not anchored
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
adrift /əˈdrɪft/ TEM8
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ADJ If a boat is adrift, it is floating on the water and is not tied to anything or controlled by anyone. (船) 漂浮着的 [v-link ADJ, v n ADJ]
例：They were spotted after three hours adrift in a dinghy.
3小时后他们被发现坐在一艘小艇里在漂着。
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2.
ADJ If someone is adrift, they feel alone with no clear idea of what they should do. (人) 茫然的 [v-link ADJ, v n ADJ]
例：Amy had the growing sense that she was adrift and isolated.
埃米有越来越强的茫然与孤独感。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days.
幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
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In 2011, they released a landmark study titled "Academically Adrift," which documented the lack of intellectual growth experienced by many people enrolled in college.
2011年，他们发布了一项名为“学术漂流”的具有里程碑意义的研究，该研究记录了许多大学生在智力方面缺乏成长的经历。
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Our plans had gone badly adrift.
我们的计划已严重受挫。
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For now the McAnespy's can only wait, their fate adrift with the tide, the wind,the course of the spill.
VOA: standard.2010.05.04
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That he's not going to suddenly be left adrift.
他不会突然一下子被抛弃。
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Several miles off the Eastern Louisiana coast these barrier islands are all that stand between treasured wetland habitats and the giant oil slick adrift in the Gulf of Mexico.
VOA: standard.2010.05.09
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