"not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"
"a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
"caught the general drift of the conversation"
"they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
"The leaves were blowing in the wind"
"the boat drifted on the lake"
"The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"
"the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
"The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"
"don't drift from the set course"
"The gypsies roamed the woods"
"roving vagabonds"
"the wandering Jew"
"The cattle roam across the prairie"
"the laborers drift from one town to the next"
"They rolled from town to town"
"stock prices are drifting higher"
"My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
"The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests"
"drift the boats downstream"
"drift the cattle herds westwards"
"The stock market drifted upward"
"snow drifting several feet high"
"sand drifting like snow"
1.飘移;漂流
When somethingdrifts somewhere, it is carried there by the movement of wind or water.
e.g. We proceeded todrift on up the river...
我们继续向河流的上游漂流。
e.g. The climbing balloon drifted silently over the countryside...
不断上升的气球静静地飘过乡间。
2.无意间进入;不知不觉陷入
If someone or somethingdrifts into a situation, they get into that situation in a way that is not planned or controlled.
e.g. We need to offer young people drifting into crime an alternative set of values...
我们需要给那些无意间犯了罪的年轻人灌输另一套价值观。
e.g. She and her husband drifted apart and, eventually, they divorced...
她和她丈夫渐行渐远,最后他们离婚了。
3.流浪;漂泊
If you say that someonedrifts around, you mean that they travel from place to place without a plan or settled way of life.
e.g. You've been drifting from job to job without any real commitment.
你一直在无目的地更换工作,从未真正投入进去。
4.移动;动向;趋势;逐渐变化
Adrift is a movement away from somewhere or something, or a movement towards somewhere or something different.
e.g. ...thedrift towards the cities.
涌向城市的趋势
5.缓慢移动;逐渐移动
Todrift somewhere means to move there slowly or gradually.
e.g. As rural factories shed labour, peopledrift towards the cities.
由于农村的工厂纷纷裁员,人们逐渐流向城市。
6.(声音等)传到,传出
If soundsdrift somewhere, they can be heard but they are not very loud.
e.g. Cool summer dance sounds are drifting from the stereo indoors.
清凉的夏日舞曲的声音从室内音响中传了出来。
7.(雪)吹积,堆积
If snowdrifts, it builds up into piles as a result of the movement of the wind.
drift的反义词
e.g. The snow, except where it drifted, was only calf-deep...
除了吹得堆积起来的地方,雪只有小腿肚深。
e.g. The storm caused severe drifting.
暴风雪造成了严重的积雪现象。
8.雪堆
Adrift is a mass of snow that has built up into a pile as a result of the movement of wind.
e.g. ...a nine-foot snowdrift.
9英尺深的雪堆
9.吹积物;飘浮物;漂流物
Adrift of something is an amount of it that has been created by the movement of wind or water.
e.g. There was adrift of smoke above the trees.
树林上空飘浮着一股烟。
10.(论点或演说的)主旨,大意
The drift of an argument or speech is the general point that is being made in it.
e.g. Grace was beginning to get hisdrift...
格雷丝慢慢明白了他的意思。
e.g. Anybody who's listening will get thedrift of what he was saying...
任何一个在专心听的人都会领悟他所说的大意。
相关词组:drift off
1. (遗传)漂变:从理论上计算,第二代继承的概率为1/2,第三代继承的概率为1/4,然而个别的单倍型在三代中的传递概率达到1(每代均传),而个别单倍型又低至0(丢失),出现了典型的遗传漂变(drift)现象.
2. drift的翻译
2. 偏航:此与空中航行之偏航(drift) 相似. 据实验证明在浪花过程中之电荷分离程度视水滴温度,溶解不洁物,冲击气流之速度,以及与外界面之接触等而定. 经观测得破裂水滴之最大部份荷正电,水滴之微细浪花在冲击气流中带走净负电荷.
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3.drift:diffuse reflection using fourier transform; 漫反射傅里叶变换红外光谱
4.drift:diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform; 漫反射红外光谱