adrift

adj.

1. 漂浮；漂流
   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
   1. The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days.
      幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
2. 漫无目的；随波逐流；漂泊无依
   feeling alone and without a direction or an aim in life
   1. young people adrift in the big city
      在大城市漂泊的年轻人
3. 脱开；松开
   no longer attached or fixed in the right position
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
   3. Our plans had gone badly adrift.
      我们的计划已严重受挫。
4. 分数落后；排名在后
   behind the score or position of your opponents
   1. 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。

1. ADJ 漂浮着的;漂流着的
   If a boat is adrift, it is floating on the water and is not tied to anything or controlled by anyone.
   1. They were spotted after three hours adrift in a dinghy.
      他们在小舢板上漂浮了3个小时后才被发现。
2. ADJ-GRADED 茫然的；无所适从的
   If someone is adrift, they feel alone with no clear idea of what they should do.
   1. Amy had the growing sense that she was adrift and isolated.
      埃米愈发感到自己孤立无援，孑然一身。
3. ADJ 脱落的；脱开的
   If something comes adrift, it is no longer attached to an object that it should be part of.
   1. Three insulating panels had come adrift from the base of the vehicle.
      车子底盘的3块隔热板已经脱落了。
4. ADJ-GRADED 分数落后的;排名在后的
   In sporting competitions, if a team or a player is adrift of their rivals, they are behind them, usually by a specified number of points or by a specified distance.
   1. Aberdeen are nine points adrift of Rangers at the top of the Scottish League.
      在苏格兰足球联赛中，亚伯丁队比排在首位的流浪者队落后9分。
5. ADJ-GRADED 出了问题的
   If something has gone adrift, it is no longer happening in the way that was intended.
   1. We have seen this as an attempt to place the blame for a policy that has gone adrift.
      我们已经认识到，这是把责任归咎于一项已偏离方向的政策的一种企图。

1. They were spotted after three hours adrift in a dinghy.
   他们在小舢板上漂浮了3个小时后才被发现。
2. Three insulating panels had come adrift from the base of the vehicle.
   车子底盘的3块隔热板已经脱落了。
3. Aberdeen are nine points adrift of Rangers at the top of the Scottish League.
   在苏格兰足球联赛中，亚伯丁队比排在首位的流浪者队落后9分。
4. We have seen this as an attempt to place the blame for a policy that has gone adrift.
   我们已经认识到，这是把责任归咎于一项已偏离方向的政策的一种企图。
5. Peters had been adrift and aimless
   彼得斯曾经漫无目的地四处漂泊。
6. The fisherman cast off the rope and set the boat adrift.
   渔夫解开缆绳，让船飘流而去。
7. Yes ah, home is a boat adrift, perhaps only experienced a drift before a home favorite.
   是啊，家是一只漂浮不定的船，也许只有经历了漂流，才会有家的至爱。
8. Why do otherwise smart people end up strategically adrift?
   为什么在其他方面都很明智的人最终在战略上偏离了呢？
9. Cast adrift or ashore; shipwrecked.
   遇难的漂流的或抛到岸上的；船失事的。
10. Seth set the coffin adrift in the Nile.
    扔进了尼罗河顺河漂流。
11. The magician survived, but he found himself adrift on a piece of wreckage with the bird.
    魔术师幸免于难，但却发现自己和这只鹦鹉漂浮在同一块残骸上。
12. The top of your pen is going adrift and will soon fall.
    你的笔帽松了，很快就要掉了。
13. After john's involvement with the police he has been cast adrift by nearly all of his friends.
    约翰加入警察后，他几乎所有的朋友都不理他了。
14. When we awoke, we were adrift on the open sea.
    醒过来的时候，我们在大海上漂流着。
15. Albert Einstein suggested long ago that we are adrift in a universe filled with waves from space.
    阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦在很久以前发现，我们漂泊在充满着空间波动的宇宙中。
16. The boat has gone adrift and there is no one board!
    小船漂走了，船上一个人也没有人了。
17. The ship was all adrift three days and nights.
    这条船漂流了三天三夜。
18. The boat was all adrift two days and nights.
    这条船漂流了两天两夜。
19. Clara's discovery of it had set his common sense adrift.
    克莱拉居然发现了这个秘密，这使他在心里上有茫然若失的感觉。
20. Were adrift in a lifeboat following a dramatic escape from a burning freighter.
    奇迹般地从着火的货船上逃生以后，在一艘救生艇上漂浮着。
21. He turns you adrift on the world with surprising alacrity.
    他以令人惊奇的喜爱任你在世上漂泊。
22. Part of the car's bumper had come adrift.
    汽车的保险有一处松动了。
23. No one was going to set her and her people adrift on the charity of relatives.
    谁也休想使她和家里的人外出漂流，去靠亲戚们的施舍过活。
24. With his head spinning in pain, he found himself adrift on the tiny bamboo raft.
    他的头在痛苦中旋转着，他发现自己漂浮在小竹笺上。
25. Hearing what he said, I was all adrift.
    听他那么一说，我倒糊涂了。
26. A lost sailor was found after nearly four MONTHS adrift& thousands of miles from his destination.
    一个美国人在海上漂了4个月后，于近日在他的目的地以外的几千英里外获救。
27. The refugees spent three days adrift on the tiny boat.
    难民在这只小船上漂流了3天。
28. The boat full of passengers was set adrift.
    满载旅客的船被漂走了。
29. The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days.
    幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
30. I miss adrift, my feelings have been absent.
    我的想念漂浮不定，我的感情一直不在。刹那间。

adj.

cast/set sb adrift

• 使漂流
  to leave sb to be carried away on a boat that is not being controlled by anyone
  1. Without language human beings are cast adrift.
     人无语言则茫然无依。

adv

1. off course, wandering aimlessly
   1. there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift

2. floating freely
   1. the boat wasset adrift