They drift the logs down the river to the sawmills.

他们使那些圆木漂下河流到锯木厂。

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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。

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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。

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But,in the meantime, people are beginning to drift back into Port-au-Prince, amid concerns that the opportunity to rebuild a less crowded capital and boost the rural economy may be fading.

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So it started to drift and people started to think I think a guinea is worth more than twenty shillings and the market price drifted up to twenty-one shillings.

所以，它的价值开始波动，人们开始考虑,我认为一个几尼的价值多于二十个先令的价格,于是市场价格就上升到二十一先令的价值上去了。

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Yet the drift to the dollar standard was somehow judged as a sign of progress.

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Yet the drift to the cities from the backward countryside is unlikely to slow.

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The drift of the coverage is that Samsung has taken the battle to Apple, and is out innovating Apple.

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