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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We now know the age of the glaciation accurately from radiometric dating of the carbon-14 in logs buried in the drift.

我们现在通过测量掩埋在漂流物中木头放射性的碳-14元素，以精确地确定冰川作用的时期。

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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。

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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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The dog had even saved them for a while, or slowed down the drift.

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