The ship was all adrift three days and nights. 这条船漂流了三天三夜。
(2) 莫名其妙;茫然失措。例如:
For all your effort to enlighten me, I am still all adrift. 尽管你设法让我开窍,我可仍然莫名其妙。
2. come[go]adrift
(1) 松开;脱落。例如:
The button has come adrift. 扣子脱落了。
(2) 有故障;出錯;有毛病。例如:
The project went adrift.这个项目出问题了。
3. set[ turn] adrift
(1) 使漂流。例如:
King Acrisius, in dismay, ordered mother and child to be boxed up in a chest, and set adrift on the sea. 阿克里西俄斯国王深为不安,下令将母子俩装进一只箱子扔到海里随波飘浮。
(2) 使漂泊没有着落;撇弃……于不顾。例如:
Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.有两三个严肃而沉静的人却摇摇头,走出了旅店,暗示吉尔斯·戈斯林,要是他想生意继续兴隆,就该趁早打发这个奢侈无度、不敬上帝的外甥再到外面去漂泊。
And they would see themselves as the Babes in the Wood, or Cinderella, or young princes more lovely than the morning, turned adrift on the world to seek their fortunes, while vulgar and ugly cuckoos slept in their beds and drank the top of the milk.
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