| 词汇 | drift apart |
| 释义 | drift apartdrift apart 1 SEPARATEif people drift or grow apart, their relationship slowly becomes less close 逐渐疏远 Lewis and his father drifted apart after he moved to New York. 刘易斯搬到纽约后和父亲逐渐疏远了。 Examples from the Corpus grow/drift apart• I think Dan and Tina just grew apart.• Instead, it was suggested the couple, who married in their early 20s, had simply grown up and grown apart.• We grew up, went off to different places, drifted apart.• Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.• Such barrenness is the inevitable outcome where two people are growing apart and out of love.• Work-inhibited students have not grown apart from their parents and become independent.• If there is any twosome in a family likely to drift apart, it is a pair of brothers.• Later in life, Lewis and his father drifted apart, never to be reconciled. → grow/drift apart at apart(4) 2 phrasal verbphr v RELATIONSHIPif people drift apart, their relationship gradually ends 〔关系〕逐渐疏远 Over the years my college friends and I have drifted apart. 久而久之，我和大学时期的朋友们逐渐疏远了。 Examples from the Corpus drift apart• Over the years my schoolfriends and I have drifted apart.• Teddy and Maria never really argued -- they just drifted apart.• We grew up, went off to different places, drifted apart.• Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.• The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests.• Amelia was still engaged to Sam Chapman, but in fact she had been drifting apart from him for some time.• The drift apart had been gradual.• Where languages grow most unlike one another as they drift apart is in the shapes of their words.• If there is any twosome in a family likely to drift apart, it is a pair of brothers.• Later in life, Lewis and his father drifted apart, never to be reconciled. → drift apart at drift1(2) |
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