0 If a boat is adrift, it is moving on the water but is not controlled by anyone because of a problem:
1 (of a boat) not fastened and moving with the sea and wind, or fig. not controlled and living without a clear purpose or direction:
We have gone adrift in our strategic thinking.
A private business would have discovered that something was wrong when it was £1 million or £2 million adrift.
All the curates of the diocese will be turned adrift without one penny of compensation.
I was here when that question was last asked, and my predecessor was somewhat set adrift by it.
In other words, there would not be an incentive to leave immediately, to cut adrift from it all, and set up somewhere else.
They are cut adrift from people around them.
I believe that he has come adrift on some of these incentives.
He was never turned adrift in the old sailing days.
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漂浮的, 漂流的, 隨波逐流的…
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漂浮的, 漂流的, 随波逐流的…
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a la deriva, perdido…
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à deriva, sem rumo…
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denizde, suda sürüklenen, akıntıya kapılan…
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à la dérive…
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unášený (proudem)…
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