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adrift /ə'drɪft/
adjective

- 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 not before noun
1.The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。

- of a person 人 feeling alone and without a direction or an aim in life 漫無目的；隨波逐流；漂泊無依 British English not before noun
1.young people adrift in the big city 在大城市四處漂泊的年輕人

- no longer attached or fixed in the right position 脫開；鬆開 not before noun
1.I nearly suffocated when the pipe on my breathing apparatus came adrift. 我的呼吸器上的管子脫落時，我差一點窒息。
2.She had been cut adrift from everything she had known. 她曾被迫與她熟悉的一切切斷關係。 figurative
3.Our plans had gone badly adrift. 我們的計劃已嚴重受挫。 figurative

- in sport 體育運動 behind the score or position of your opponents 分數落後；排名在後 ~ (of sb/sth) (British English) not before, noun
1.The team are now just six points adrift of the leaders. 現在該隊得分比領先的隊只落後六分。


Idiom:

- cast/set somebody adrift
to leave somebody to be carried away on a boat that is not being controlled by anyone 使漂流