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adrift

adjective
🔊/əˈdrɪft/
🔊/əˈdrɪft/
 [not before noun]
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  1. if a boat or a person in a boat is adrift, the boat is not tied to anything or is floating without being controlled by anyone漂浮；漂流
    • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days.幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。🔊🔊
    • Their boat had been set adrift.已让他们的船漂离。
    Topics Transport by waterc2
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  2. (of a person人) feeling alone and without a direction or an aim in life漫无目的；随波逐流；漂泊无依
    • young people adrift in the big city在大城市四处漂泊的年轻人
    • Without language, human beings are cast adrift.人无语言则茫然无依。🔊🔊
    • She felt cast adrift in a vulgar, materialistic society.她感到在庸俗的、物质至上的社会中随波逐流。
    Topics Feelingsc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • come
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    preposition
    • from
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  3. no longer attached or fixed in the right position脱开；松开
    • I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift.我的呼吸器上的管子脱落时，我差一点窒息。🔊🔊
    • (figurative) She had been cut adrift from everything she had known.她曾被迫与她熟悉的一切切断关系。🔊🔊
    • (figurative) Our plans had gone badly adrift.我们的计划已严重受挫。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • come
    • go
    • …
    preposition
    • from
    • in
    • of
    • …
    See full entry
  4. adrift (of somebody/something) (especially British English) (in sport体育运动) behind the score or position of your opponents分数落后；排名在后
    • The team are now just six points adrift of the leaders.现在该队得分比领先的队只落后六分。🔊🔊
    5. Word Originlate 16th cent.: from a-, ‘on, in’ + drift.