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词汇 adrift
释义 adrift
adjective[ after verb ]
uk /əˈdrɪft/ us /əˈdrɪft/
If a boat is adrift, it is moving on the water but is not controlled by anyone because of a problem: 漂浮的;漂流的
He spent three days adrift on his yacht.他在游艇上漂流了3天。
If a person is adrift, they do not have a clear purpose in life or know what they want to do: 随波逐流的;漫无目的的;漂泊无依的
Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.达席尔瓦饰演的角色是一个才华横溢的学生,离开纽约孤身漂泊在偏僻的亚利桑那州。
Synonyms
aimlessmainly disapproving
directionless
rudderless
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

having no clear plan or purpose
aimlessHe was just aimless and confused after being let go from his position.
directionlessThe party was plagued with weak and directionless leaders who had no clue how to govern.
purposelessThe job left him feeling unfulfiled and purposeless.
adriftHis son has just been utterly adrift since leaving university.
emptyAfter losing him, I just feel empty inside.
 go/come adriftinformal
to become loose: 脱开;松开
The hem of my skirt's come adrift again.我的裙子褶边又散开了。
 go adriftinformal
If plans go adrift, they fail or do not produce the correct results: 出问题;出岔子
Something seems to have gone adrift in our calculations.我们的计算好像有什么地方出了问题。
See
castverb
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Terms for location & direction used at sea
abaft
afloat
aft
aground
amidships
ashore
astern
cast
cast someone adriftidiom
deck
fore
inshore
keep afloat
longshore
offshore
onshore
out
overboard
shore

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Useless and futile

adrift | American Dictionary


adrift
adjective, adverb
us/əˈdrɪft/
(of a boat) not fastened and moving with the sea and wind, or fig. not controlled and living without a clear purpose or direction:
fig. Hopeful actors from small towns are often adrift in New York.

Examples of adrift


adrift
We have gone adrift in our strategic thinking.
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A private business would have discovered that something was wrong when it was £1 million or £2 million adrift.
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All the curates of the diocese will be turned adrift without one penny of compensation.
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I was here when that question was last asked, and my predecessor was somewhat set adrift by it.
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In other words, there would not be an incentive to leave immediately, to cut adrift from it all, and set up somewhere else.
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They are cut adrift from people around them.
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I believe that he has come adrift on some of these incentives.
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He was never turned adrift in the old sailing days.
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All those societies will have to be weeded out, and the members turned adrift to receive insurance as best they may.
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The idea is that if they go adrift, the attention of the nursing home or the people caring for them will be directed to them.
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We must not cut farmers adrift and leave them in a sea of market distortion.
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I have never known him go adrift on it before.
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Very often the injured man is cut adrift from his fellow men in the ordinary walks of life.
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The grouping has gone adrift and that is causing difficulties.
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As a fishing nation, we are badly adrift in terms of our multi-annual guidance programme.
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