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单词 adrift
释义 adrift
adrift /əˈdrɪft/ adjective [after verb]
1
F0 If a boat is adrift, it is moving on the water but is not controlled by anyone because of a problem:
» He spent three days adrift on his yacht.Thesaurus+: ↑Terms for location and direction used at sea
2
F0 If a person is adrift, they do not have a clear purpose in life or know what they want to do:
» Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.Thesaurus+: ↑Useless and futile
go/come adrift INFORMAL
3
F0 to become loose:
» The hem of my skirt's come adrift again.Thesaurus+: ↑Flexible, loose and yielding
go adrift INFORMAL
4
F0 If plans go adrift, they fail or do not produce the correct results:
» Something seems to have gone adrift in our calculations.Thesaurus+: ↑Faults and mistakes
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