The ship was adrift on the high seas.

那艘船在公海飘流。

He was adrift in an open boat for three days.

他在一只敞篷船流了三天。

He turned his son adrift in a snowstorm.

他将儿子逐出家门, 让他在暴风雪里四处泊。

She had been cut adrift from everything she had known.

她远离了她所熟知一切。

The fisherman cast off the rope and set the boat adrift.

渔夫解开缆绳, 让船流而去。

I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.

呼管子脱落时，我差点给憋死。

Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.

有两三个严肃而沉静人却摇摇头，走出了旅店，暗示吉尔斯·戈斯林，要是他想生意继续兴隆，就该趁早打发这个奢侈无度、不敬帝外甥再到外面去泊。