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drifter

/drif-ter/US // ˈdrɪf tər //UK // (ˈdrɪftə) //

漂泊者,漂泊的人,漂流者,漂移者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that drifts.
    • : a person who goes from place to place, job to job, etc., remaining in each for a short period.
    • : Also called drift boat . a boat used in fishing with a drift net.

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Examples

  • Kaestel, then a drifter with a criminal record, was 29 years old.

  • Professor Kummel was not a drifter and when I had to write papers in his class, I had to swallow my beliefs and write what he wanted to hear.

  • He had invited a 19-year-old drifter named Arnold Murray to his house and they had had consensual sex.

  • A May 2014 Slate article by Sam Kean details the tragic changes he suffered “from a virtuous foreman to a sociopathic drifter.”

  • We used to call ourselves Drifter 873, Skull 7326, the 207th Commandos.

  • His friends describe him as a “lovable drifter” and a “clearly passionate individual.”

  • Still living in Australia, he had become a drifter, unable to hold down a job.

  • Im going to begin right now, too; Ill show Mother that I am not a gilt-edge drifter.

  • On the night in question our drifter patrol in the Straits of Otranto was attacked by a force of Austrian light cruisers.

  • He was half owner of a fine drifter and skipper as well, to say nothing of having designed the boat.

  • The buildings, evidently, belonged to the Double A ranch, and the country was all the Drifter had claimed for it.

  • She was then told off with another drifter to anchor in the vicinity of the Shipwash to work the hydrophones during the night.