drift
n. 漂流物, 漂流, 动向 v. (使)漂流
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词形变化
教材释义与例句
漂流，漂移；趋势；漂流物
漂流，漂移；漂泊
使…漂流；使…受风吹积
释义与例句
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Movement; that which moves or is moved.
Anything driven at random.
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Movement; that which moves or is moved.
A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
可数 不可数a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, of plants, etc.
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Movement; that which moves or is moved.
The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
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Movement; that which moves or is moved.
A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
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Movement; that which moves or is moved.
A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
可数 不可数It is there seen that at a distance from the valleys of streams, the old glacial drift usually comes to the surface, and often rises into considerable eminences.
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Movement; that which moves or is moved.
Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
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Movement; that which moves or is moved.
A driving; a violent movement.
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Movement; that which moves or is moved.
Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
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Movement; that which moves or is moved.
That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
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The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
漂流
可数 不可数A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose.
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A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
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The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
可数 不可数c. early 1700s, Joseph Addison, A Discourse on Ancient and Modern Learning He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general.
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The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
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A tool.
A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
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A tool.
A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
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A tool.
A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
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A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
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Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
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The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
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A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
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An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
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A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
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In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
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Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
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A heading driven through a seam of coal.
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Movement.
The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
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Movement.
The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
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Movement.
The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
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Movement.
The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
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Movement.
The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
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A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
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Slow, cumulative change.
可数 不可数genetic drift
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In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
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To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
漂流
不及物The boat drifted away from the shore.
The balloon was drifting in the breeze.
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To move haphazardly without any destination.
不及物He drifted from town to town, never settling down.
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To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
不及物This car tends to drift left at high speeds.
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To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
及物1865-1866, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua I was drifted back first to the ante - Nicene history , and then to the Church of Alexandria
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To drive into heaps.
及物A current of wind drifts snow or sand
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To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
不及物Snow or sand drifts.
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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.
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To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
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To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
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词源
From Middle English drift, dryft (“act of driving, drove, shower of rain or snow, impulse”), from Old English *drift (“drift”), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (“drift”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Equivalent to drive + -t; cognate with North Frisian drift (“drift”), Saterland Frisian Drift (“current, flow, stream, drift”), Dutch drift (“drift, passion, urge”), German Drift (“drift”) and Trift (“drove, pasture”), Danish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Swedish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Icelandic drift (“drift, snow-drift”).
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