adrift的意思|adrift的解释-里氏词典

adrift [ə'drift]

ad. 漂流地, 漂浮着, 随波逐流地

a. 漂浮着的

She untied the rope and set the boat adrift.
她把绳索解开，放开小船。
The top of your pen is going adrift and will soon fall.
你的笔帽松了，很快就要掉了。
They set a boat adrift.
他们让船漂走了。

adrift

[ adv ]

floating freely; not anchored

<adv.all>

the boat wasset adrift

off course, wandering aimlessly

<adv.all>

there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift

[ adj ]

aimlessly drifting

<adj.all>

afloat on the surface of a body of water

<adj.all>

after the storm the boats were adrift

Adrift \A*drift"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- (for on) + drift.]
Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of
wind and waves. Also fig.

So on the sea shall be set adrift. --Dryden.

Were from their daily labor turned adrift.
--Wordsworth.

Traders said the market was left adrift Monday in the absence of compelling reasons to buy shares and the lack of direction for New York stocks.
And if the big partner's priorities shift, the small company sometimes is set adrift.
A man who spent three weeks adrift in a small boat says his girlfriend apparently died while trying to swim to safety.
Our basic curriculum, especially in the sciences and in social studies, is adrift and holds little hope for preparing the next generation to be knowledgeable and thoughtful participants in a world economy.
If only that alone could anchor the present culture, which in many ways seems dangerously adrift. Collections are rather subtle transmitters of secular values. Even libraries won't help many who don't know where to look or even how to read.
The two-year note was up 1/32 at 100 5/16 , yielding 4.937 per cent. Although the absence of fresh economic news left the market adrift during the morning, there was sporadic retail and institutional buying.
The shares closed 8 adrift at 853p. The steep fall on the Hong Kong market upset HSBC, which was also affected by a bout of nervousness ahead of Monday's preliminary figures.
Many of its practitioners are adrift, cut off from intellectual, ideological, religious or ethical moorings.
Stakis, which finished 3 adrift at 59p, was also affected by newspaper reports of property valuations in the hotel industry.
Shares in the latter added 8 to 861p, while Ladbroke rose 3 to 203p and Rank recovered to close a penny adrift at 713p. Analysts declared themselves little better off after a visit to a WH Smith's Do It All facility.
Opponents of the ban argued there is no proof that cigarette fumes harm nonsmokers, and that the smoke is merely one of many chemicals adrift in the recirculated air inside airliners.
Economic and political problems in some neighbouring islands appear a powerful argument against casting adrift from the US.
Most experts say Cuba is too valuable an ally for Moscow to cut adrift simply because of differing economic policies.
News of the rights issue sent the shares into retreat, tumbling 12 at one stage, before recovering to close just 2 adrift at 193p.
Thought for today: "Man in the 20th century has been cut adrift in a rudderless boat on an uncharted sea." _ Stanley Kubrick.
The Light Blues left the internationals wallowing four lengths adrift.
Turnover was moderate by recent sessions at 4.9m. Airtours dropped 19 to 319p, then rallied to end the day 11 adrift at 327p. The company managed to secure 43 per cent of the shares either through nominees or by pledges of support.
President Bush today challenged charges that his administration is adrift, saying he is trying to defuse "ticking time bombs" while charting an agenda for America in the next century.
Prince William Sound, about 20 miles north of the area where the barge went adrift, was where the tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef March 24 and spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil in the worst spill in U.S. history.
Indeed, the shredding revelations suggested more than ever that Mr Lopez's associates have been cut adrift.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev acknowledged to local Communist leaders that the Kremlin had cast them adrift as it rapidly switched signals in a bid to quiet republics' demands for autonomy, a local official said today.
"The financial markets are adrift and desperate for some kind of leadership from the Federal Reserve," Norman Robertson, senior vice president and chief economist at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, said.
She noted that the large-capital steel and other heavy industrial issues have led the market in recent weeks, and helped boost volume, but have faltered over the past week or so and left the market adrift.
These are people of a liberal consciousness adrift in a time when to be of the liberal left in the United States is very frustrating.
A barge that was adrift south of Prince William Sound with more than 5 million gallons of jet fuel on board resumed its tow to Anchorage on Friday after an inspection revealed no damage to the vessel.

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