drifting 的 4 个定义
- to be carried along by currents of water or air, or by the force of circumstances.
- to wander aimlessly: He drifts from town to town.
- to be driven into heaps, as by the wind: drifting sand.
- to deviate or vary from a set course or adjustment.
- to carry along: The current drifted the boat to sea.
- to drive into heaps: The wind drifted the snow.
- Machinery. to enlarge with a drift.to align or straighten with a drift.
- drift off, to fall asleep gradually.
drifting 近义词
move aimlessly
更多drifting例句
- Holmes admitted he had no data to back up the idea, and the geology community remained largely unconvinced of continental drift.
- If she was right, the valley might be a rift where molten material came up from below, forming new crust and pushing the ocean floor apart — evidence that could support continental drift.
- The move highlights the increasing dominance of conservative punditry at a network that positioned itself at its founding as a “fair and balanced” alternative to what it saw as a liberal drift in other media.
- Because wind can build drifts of deep snow over holes, effectively hiding them from view, using a pole as a probe to detect divots can be a lifesaver in deep and uneven snowpack.
- Residents continue to complain of drift from aerial spraying and heavy sediment pollution into Nehalem Bay, home to clams, Dungeness crab and runs of chinook and coho salmon.
- Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.
- It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries.
- In this valley so far away from Syria, questions loom like mist drifting off the Caucasus.
- Tokyo Bay is “a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white Styrofoam.”
- The life of the club owner was something Leonard left behind, the noise and violence drifting into lore.
- Something came up between me and Lyn—and I drifted, and kept drifting.
- To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage.
- As there was not now a breath of wind, we were entirely at the mercy of the stream, and began drifting back.
- A sheet of rain came drifting across the lake toward the hillock on which the house stood.
- We were now drifting to the South by East through a wide channel, sounding in between fifty and sixty fathoms, rocky bottom.