英和和英

発音

• enPR: ə-drĭft', IPA: /əˈdrɪft/, X-SAMPA: /@"drIft/

• 韻: -ɪft

形容詞

adrift (comparative more adrift, superlative most adrift)

1. Floating at random.

   So on the sea shall be set adrift. --Dryden.

2. (of a seaman) Absent from his watch.
3. (主に英国用法, often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.

   The team were six points adrift of their rivals.

   • 1996, David H. Begg, Monetary Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons After Half a Decade, International Monetary Fund, ISBN 1455282820:

     The Czech Republic in 1994-95, with a pegged nominal exchange rate and nominal deposit rates of 7 percent, was several percentage points adrift of the interest parity condition.

   • 2006, Brian Long, Subaru Impreza: The Road Car & WRC Story, ISBN 1845840283, page 56:

     He did well, coming second, but Toyota and Mitsubishi were now neck-and-neck, with the Subaru team 38 points adrift of the leaders.

   • 2012 April 18, Anthony Vickers, “Boro 0 Doncaster Rovers 0”, The Evening Gazette (Teeside):

     Boro were left needing snookers after a toothless goalless draw with Dead Men Walking Doncaster left them well adrift and fading in the chase for a Championship play-off place.

副詞

adrift (comparative more adrift, superlative most adrift)

1. In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.

関連する語

• cast adrift