喜樂美語
  1. 1

    Floating freely, not tied down or steered — moving wherever the water or wind takes it, like a boat that has come loose from its rope. It's also used about people, meaning they feel lost or without a clear direction or purpose in life.

    漂流的；(比喻)茫然失措、失去方向

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成a- (in a state of) + drift (to move slowly, carried along by water, wind, or air).

同家族的字

  • driftadrift is just "drift" with the prefix a- ("in a state of") added to the front

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

adriftadj/əˈdɹɪft/

  • 1

    Floating at random.

    • So on the sea she shall be set adrift.
  • 2

    Absent from his watch.

  • 3

    Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.

    • The team were six points adrift of their rivals.
    • The Czech Republic in 1994-95, with a pegged nominal exchange rate and nominal deposit rates of 7 percent, was several percentage points adrift of the interest parity condition.

adriftadv/əˈdɹɪft/

  • 1

    In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.

    • things wore on till eight or nine o'clock, every thing getting adrift and being smashed, and every one on board jamming themselves up in corners or holding on to beams to prevent their going adrift likewise

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。