And to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, gave ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New.

同时知道，周围上下的一切，跟天上的繁星一样，从史前时期以来未曾有过变动，这时候，随着人世变幻无常而漂泊不定的灵小船有了压舱石，因无法制止的日新月异而受到困扰的镇定下来。

The unrooted man is the adrift man.

无根之人注定要漂泊。

I was adrift back then. I had-had no purpose.

我那时很茫然，没有目标。

But instead of ever feeling fulfilled, I felt anxious and adrift.

可我非但没有感到充实，反而感到焦虑迷茫。

The outsiders, whose ties with firms are looser, may be cast adrift.

那些与公司关系较为松散的兼职人员可能会被抛。

It involved two American women and their two dogs who said they were adrift for months in the Pacific.

这其中包括两个美国女士和她的两条狗，据说他们在太平洋上漂流了几个月。

This, perhaps, is the true source of Oppenheimer's ruin; he shattered his reality, and in doing so, he cast himself adrift, unstuck in time, without any hope of reclaiming the blissful certainties he once enjoyed.

这也许是奥本海默破毁灭的真正原因；他粉碎了他的现实，在这样做的过程中，他让自己随波逐流，脱离了时间的束缚，没有任重新获得他曾经享受过的幸福的确定性。

You can see the isolation and the lives of people who are adrift.

不少人过着离群索居，漂泊无依的生活。

Luckily, they spared my life but set me adrift in a small canoe with paddles and enough food for only three days.

幸运的是，他们饶了我的命，但把我放逐到一艘带桨的独木舟上，只让我带上够三天的食物。

The drunks adrift on the edges of the picture seem to be shrivelling, like moths, in the burning glare of these three false suns.

漂浮在画面边缘的醉鬼看起来像是飞蛾，在这三个“太阳”燃烧的刺眼光芒下，逐渐枯萎。

That is 14% adrift of the year-to-date score at the same point in 2023.

这比 2023 年同期降低 14%。

On the very first night adrift, 20 men were murdered.

在漂流的第一夜，20个人被杀。

We are acutely fragile bundles of nerves and neurons adrift in a sharp-edged random universe.

我们是极度脆弱的神经束和神经元束，漂浮在一个极度随机的宇宙中。

I feel like I've been set adrift in the open sea but now...

我觉得自己在大海上漫无目的地漂泊。

With King gone, his movement was adrift.

金离世后，民权运动一度失去方向。

They are all now cast adrift on an ice floe.

他们现在是真正的如履薄冰。

He was feeling adrift, and Sam had reached out.

他感觉自己现在无依无靠，而山姆恰好又伸出了援助之手。

By 2007, he was 36, jobless, and adrift.

2007年，他36岁，没有工作，四处漂泊。

About 150 people were set adrift on the makeshift vessel.

大约 150 人在这艘临时船只上漂流。

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

乔一点也不懂哲学或玄学之类的东西，但一阵好奇的激动，一半是令人愉快的，一半是叫人痛苦的，在她倾听时向她袭来，她感觉像是被卷到了时间与空间之中，像是假日里放飞的一只新的气球。