drift是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 漂流, 漂流物, 大概意思, 趋势; v. 漂流, 流浪，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the boat was not fastened, and the motion which she occasioned, made it drift from the shore.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his characteristic quickwittedness he caught the drift of each innuendo, divined whence it came, at whom and on what ground it was aimed, and that afforded him, as it always did, a certain satisfaction.
-- Dolly was beginning a question as to what name the little girl would have; but noticing a sudden frown on Anna's face, she changed the drift of her question.
-- "I ought to own that I don't very well understand the drift of the provincial elections," said Levin.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May drift around quite some time."
-- When Leora had made complaint, he would be forcibly kind to all sorts of alarmed stray beggars for a day or two, then drift back into his absorption.
-- III As sharply and quite as impersonally as he would have watched the crawling illness of an infected guinea pig, Martin watched himself, in the madness of overwork, drift toward neurasthenia.
-- Trying to drift clear down to Venezuela?
-- It was, however, Rippleton Holabird's attitude which most concerned Martin, for Holabird did not let him forget that unless he desired to drift off and be merely a ghostly Rich Woman's husband, he would do well to remember who was Director.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw the door move, and the snow drift in.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here you see that indestructible furniture never met with elsewhere, which finds its way into lodging- houses much as the wrecks of our civilization drift into hospitals for incurables.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the whole we deemed it the better course to lie where we were, until within an hour or so of the steamer's time, and then to get out in her track, and drift easily with the tide.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie made no effort of any kind, but just let himself drift along as comfortably as possible, trying to forget, and feeling that all women owed him a kind word because one had been cold to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fagin put several other questions: all with the same drift of ascertaining whether the girl had profited by his unguarded hints; but, she answered them so readily, and was withal so utterly unmoved by his searching looks, that his original impression of her being more than a trifle in liquor, was confirmed.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mrs. Dashwood began shortly to give over every hope of the kind, and to be convinced, from the general drift of his discourse, that his assistance extended no farther than their maintenance for six months at Norland.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not try to conjecture what the drift of the conversation would be.
-- The drift of his thoughts began to tell.
-- Before you came I did nothing but idle and drift into anything that offered itself.
-- He was simply letting things drift because he preferred the free round of his present state to any legal trammellings.
-- Mrs. Morgan saw the drift of things and gleamed at Carrie with envious and snapping black eyes.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moon was so bright I could a counted the drift logs that went a-slipping along, black and still, hundreds of yards out from shore.
-- When it was dark I set by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lone-some, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.
-- I started across to the town from a little below the ferry-landing, and the drift of the current fetched me in at the bottom of the town.
-- But I made out to see that the drift of the cur-rent was towards the left- hand shore, which meant that I was in a crossing; so I changed off and went that way.
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