if a boat or a person in a boat is adrift, the boat is not tied to anything or is floating without being controlled by anyone 漂浮；漂流 The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。 Their boat had been set adrift. 已让他们的船漂离。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- come
- go
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- from
- in
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(of a person 人 feeling alone and without a direction or an aim in life 漫无目的；随波逐流；漂泊无依 young people adrift in the big city 在大城市四处漂泊的年轻人 Without language, human beings are cast adrift. 人无语言则茫然无依。 She felt cast adrift in a vulgar, materialistic society. 她感到在庸俗的、物质至上的社会中随波逐流。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- come
- go
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- from
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no longer attached or fixed in the right position 脱开；松开 I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift. 我的呼吸器上的管子脱落时，我差一点窒息。 - (figurative)
She had been cut adrift from everything she had known. 她曾被迫与她熟悉的一切切断关系。 - (figurative)
Our plans had gone badly adrift. 我们的计划已严重受挫。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- come
- go
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- from
- in
- of
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- adrift (of somebody/something) (especially British English)
(in sport 体育运动 behind the score or position of your opponents 分数落后；排名在后
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from a-, ‘on, in’ + drift.