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单词 drifts
例句 driftsnounpl. of drift

a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow)deep drifts of snow blocked our driveway

banks, bars, mounds

snowbanks, snowdriftsembankments, sandbarsheaps, hills, masses, mountains, stacks, tufts

a prevailing or general movement or inclinationthe steady drift of the population away from large cities

currents, directions, leanings, runs, tendencies, tides, trends, winds

curves, downsides, shifts, swings, turnabouts, turns, upsidescustoms, habits, propensities, tenors, wayscountercurrents, countertrends(or counter-trends)undercurrents, undertows

the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or actionyou should expect a visit from the stork, if you get my drift

contents, denotations, imports, intentions, intents, meanings, purports, senses, significances, significations

connotationsclues, cues, hints, implications, indications, inklings, intimations, suggestionsmessages, tenors, themesbottoms, essences, essentialities, natures, souls, spirits, stuffacceptances, acceptations, definitionsburdens, cruxes(also cruces), gistscores, hearts, kernels, marrows, nubs, nuclei(also nucleuses), piths, points, quicksmatters, motifs, motives, questions, subjects, topics

driftsverbpresent tense third-person singular of drift

to move or proceed smoothly and readilycasual conversation drifting from one topic to another

bowls, breezes, brushes, coasts, cruises, flows, glides, rolls, sails, skims, slides, slips, streams, sweeps, whisks

flies, races, rushes, speeds

flounders, struggles

limps, lumbers, plods, stumbles, trudgesshambles, shufflesstamps, stomps, stumps, trampslabors, toils

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the airthe boat drifted along on the current

floats, glides, hangs, hovers, poises, rides, sails, swims, wafts

bobs, dangles, suspendsbuoysballoons, rafts

settles, sinks

dives, lunges, plungesdips, immerses, submerges, submerses

to move about from place to place aimlesslyspent several years drifting from town to town, picking up odd jobs whenever he needed cash

bats, cruises, floats, gads (about), gallivants(also galavants), kicks around, knocks (about), maunders, meanders, mooches, rambles, ranges, roams, roves, traipses, wanders

ambles, saunters, strollsdawdles, mopesgypsies, hobos, tramps, vagabondsmills (about or around)straggles, strays

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