Why don't you let the nest drift as usual?(你为什么不像往常一样让鸟巢漂流呢？)
Tom presently began to drift insensibly back into the concerns of this life again.(不久，汤姆又不知不觉地回到了现实生活中来。)
We now know the age of the glaciation accurately from radiometric dating of the carbon-14 in logs buried in the drift.(我们现在通过测量掩埋在漂流物中木头放射性的碳-14元素，以精确地确定冰川作用的时期。)
My sister and I reclined and let our little rowboat drift out onto the lake.(我的妹妹和我斜倚着，让我们的小舟在湖面漂泊。)
This drift has been studied extensively in many animals and in biological activities ranging from the hatching of fruit fly eggs to wheel running by squirrels.(在许多动物中，以及在诸如果蝇卵的孵化乃至松鼠跑动的转轮这样的生物活动中，这种变化趋势一直受到广泛的研究。)
Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor.(例如，斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德认为，大陆漂移理论之所以被否决，是因为它没有解释大陆是如何穿过明显很坚固的海底的。)
Grace was beginning to get his drift.(格雷斯开始抓住他的主旨了。)
A nine-year-old boy was trapped in a snow drift.(一个9岁的男孩陷在雪堆里了。)
Earth's internal heat, fueled by radioactivity, provides the energy for plate tectonics and continental drift, mountain building, and earthquakes.(地球内部因放射而产生的热量为板块运动、大陆漂移、造山运动和地震提供了能量。)
