英语词汇“to drift in”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. transferred and figurative. To move or pass passively or aimlessly; to be carried involuntarily or without effort in some course or into some condition. Also (colloquial), to go away, get out; to come or go casually; to wander; frequently with adverbs, as to drift around, to drift by, to drift in, to drift out; to drift apart, of a man and a woman: gradually to lose mutual affection, etc.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > without effort

drift1822

wift1864

shimmy1923

the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > quarrel or fall at variance [verb (intransitive)] > lose mutual affection

to drift apart1903

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. i. 8 Drift with the tide of nonsense.

1864 ‘M. Twain’ in Harte & ‘Twain’ Sketches (1926) 122 She can calculate on my drifting around in the course of an hour or so.

1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xi. 121 They..were fast drifting towards apostasy.

1874 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age I. ix. 119 A week drifted by, and all the while the patient sank lower and lower.

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxxii. 248 Villagers filed through Judge Thatcher's house..and drifted out raining tears all over the place.

1885 Manch. Examiner 30 Mar. 5/2 Content to let things drift.

1898 M. Deland Old Chester Tales 43 Peter, with a pretty girl on his arm, drifted in out of the windy and rainy darkness.

1903 Red Book July 278/1 Ralph and I had drifted apart years before.

1908 Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 4/7 The drifter drifts to California, and brings up there because..he can drift no further.

1910 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith in City vi. 46 Let us drift aside into this teashop.

1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxviii. 275 For months he had had a sense of drifting, and his character was not that of a drifter.

1942 R. Chandler High Window (1943) ix. 70 ‘Beat it,’ he said. ‘Drift.’

1942 R. Chandler High Window (1943) xix. 134 So speak your piece and drift away.

1945 Coast to Coast 1944 3 Early spectators were drifting in.

1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom i. vi. 83 Well, I'll be drifting.

1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago ix. 255 Tonya and I have never drifted apart and this year of work has brought us even closer together.

单词	to drift in
释义	> as lemmas to drift in c. transferred and figurative. To move or pass passively or aimlessly; to be carried involuntarily or without effort in some course or into some condition. Also (colloquial), to go away, get out; to come or go casually; to wander; frequently with adverbs, as to drift around, to drift by, to drift in, to drift out; to drift apart, of a man and a woman: gradually to lose mutual affection, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > without effort drift1822 wift1864 shimmy1923 the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > quarrel or fall at variance [verb (intransitive)] > lose mutual affection to drift apart1903 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. i. 8 Drift with the tide of nonsense. 1864 ‘M. Twain’ in Harte & ‘Twain’ Sketches (1926) 122 She can calculate on my drifting around in the course of an hour or so. 1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xi. 121 They..were fast drifting towards apostasy. 1874 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age I. ix. 119 A week drifted by, and all the while the patient sank lower and lower. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxxii. 248 Villagers filed through Judge Thatcher's house..and drifted out raining tears all over the place. 1885 Manch. Examiner 30 Mar. 5/2 Content to let things drift. 1898 M. Deland Old Chester Tales 43 Peter, with a pretty girl on his arm, drifted in out of the windy and rainy darkness. 1903 Red Book July 278/1 Ralph and I had drifted apart years before. 1908 Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 4/7 The drifter drifts to California, and brings up there because..he can drift no further. 1910 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith in City vi. 46 Let us drift aside into this teashop. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xxviii. 275 For months he had had a sense of drifting, and his character was not that of a drifter. 1942 R. Chandler High Window (1943) ix. 70 ‘Beat it,’ he said. ‘Drift.’ 1942 R. Chandler High Window (1943) xix. 134 So speak your piece and drift away. 1945 Coast to Coast 1944 3 Early spectators were drifting in. 1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom i. vi. 83 Well, I'll be drifting. 1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago ix. 255 Tonya and I have never drifted apart and this year of work has brought us even closer together. extracted from driftv. < as lemmas
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