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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The OMBU now began to drift rapidly along, impelled by wind and current.
-- But the wind soon fell almost entirely, and the raft became nearly motionless, and soon began to drift to seaward under the influence of the ebb-tide.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Lebedeff, dubiously, as though he had not taken in the drift of the prince's remark.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had no means of reaching the land unless I should chance to drift there.
-- 'Look here, Prendick,' he said, 'I had no business to let you drift out into this silly island of ours.
-- But somehow the things drift back again: the stubborn beast-flesh grows day by day back again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?"
-- That is the drift of the current in spite of the eddies.
-- I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the boat was left to drift down the stream as it would, till it glided gently in among the waving rushes.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most of the soil had been washed away or buried in drift after the removal of the trees; only where the streamlet ran down from the kettle a thick bed of moss and some ferns and little creeping bushes were still green among the sand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her electric apparatus remained inactive and her motionless screw left her to drift at the mercy of the currents.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She seemed to catch the drift of his statement, and then she drew away.
-- The water lies between two very sharp slopes, with little branch valleys, and God knows where the drift will take you.
-- He went in such a blithe drift of rage, that her mind wondered over him.
-- Even Gerald told father that only an artist is free, because he lives in a creative world of his own "Gudrun caught the drift of the family intentions, in this letter.
-- Why not drift on in a series of accidents like a picaresque novel?
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