The boat full of passengers was set adrift.

满载旅客的船被漂走了。

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The seas are full of the cast-offs of humanity, from tub toys that have fallen off container ships to boats swept away in storms to bottled messages deliberately set adrift.

海洋中充满着人类的废弃物，有从货运船上掉下的浴缸玩具，也有被风暴冲走的小船，还有故意封存在漂流瓶中纸卷。

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I don't know why I'm telling this story-perhaps because what happened to Gerard could happen to any of us, I suppose, especially as we age and our spouses age and we're increasingly set adrift.

我不知道为什么要讲这个故事——或许是因为杰拉德身上所发生的事，也同样可能会在我们身上发生的缘故吧，我想，尤其是到了我们这个年龄段的夫妻，无依无靠，日渐漂泊不定。

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Forced to abandon ship, Shackleton and his crew were set adrift on the floes.

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Payton's last major recording, Sonic Trance, sounded like an artist unmoored, set adrift in search of a sound.

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Other boatloads of Rohingya have allegedly been set adrift after being towed out to sea by Thai authorities.

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