drift
/dɹɪft/ 动词 C2中文： 漂流
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc. · The boat drifted away from the shore.· The balloon was drifting in the breeze.
- To move haphazardly without any destination. · He drifted from town to town, never settling down.
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel. · This car tends to drift left at high speeds.
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- To drive into heaps. · A current of wind drifts snow or sand
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps. · Snow or sand drifts.
- To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
He/she/it drifts · 过去式 drifted · 过去分词 drifted · -ing形式 drifting
动词形式
- 原形
- drift
- He/she/it
- drifts
- 过去式
- drifted
- 过去分词
- drifted
- -ing形式
- drifting
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They explored all the passages and dark tunnels in the palace and the hundreds of little dark rooms, but they never remembered what they had seen and what they had not; and so drifted about in ones and twos or crowds telling each other that they were doing as men did.
In the garden below were lilac-trees purple with flowers, and their dizzily sweet fragrance drifted up to the window on the morning wind.
I’d be popping up every minute or so to see where I was and if I wasn’t drifting too far out.
The girls had discovered that if the flat were pushed off from the landing place it would drift down with the current under the bridge and finally strand itself on another headland lower down which ran out at a curve in the pond.
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