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，周围下的一切，跟天的繁星一样，从史前时期以来就未曾有过变动，这时候，随着人世变幻常而不定的心灵小船就有了压舱石，因法制止的日新月异而受到困扰的心思就镇定下来。

The unrooted man is the adrift man.

根之人注定要。

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

不少人过着离群索居，依的生活。

And you find that sort of rootless existence appealing, do you? Well, yes, ma'am, I do. I mean, I've got everything I need right here with me.

那么你觉得这种四处的生活很有意思，对吧？ 是的，夫人，我很喜欢。所有家当都在身。

As a young man at sea, Edmond had the sunburned face of a bronze god.

年轻时，他长年在，皮肤被晒成如神像般的古铜色。

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

我觉得自己在大目的地。

He looked as though he had been traveling for days.

他看去在外面了许多日子。

Max, the young man in the movie, was tired of moving around.

电影中的这个年轻人麦克斯厌倦了四处。

He is a drifter who has fulfilled his purpose and must now move on.

他是一个已经实现了目标的者，现在必须继续前行。

I think that's important for guys that Asian-Americans outside that don't have anywhere to belong.

我认为对于那些在外没有归属感的美籍亚裔来说，这很重要。

Oh, just another business trip for the wandering salesman. She'd be bored to tears.

噢，又是一次到处的销售员的商务旅行，她会聊死的。

So, they're left in limbo, but physically inside the United States.

所以，他们虽住在美国，但却处于不定的状态。

He then spent years wandering the earth until he found his home on the island.

自后，他多年流浪，直到他在这座岛找到家。

Tens of thousands of people are on the road.

万人四处。

To living on the road never settling in one place, not belonging anywhere!

生活在路，四处，没有归属！

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

2007年，他36岁，没有工作，四处。

Now, we've seen Peter as a high schooler, then a world traveler, then a sacrifice.

我们见证过彼得的高中生阶段、四处的旅人阶段，还有做出重大牺牲的结局。

The son of an air force pilot, he had a somewhat nomadic childhood.

【nomadic】因为是空军飞行员的儿子，他童年的生活有点不定。

To be one of a crowd wandering around in search of a place to settle down, with your existence distilled down to a handful of mementoes and a cactus, is profoundly depressing.

作为四处、寻找安身之处的众人之一，你的存在被浓缩为几个纪念品和一株仙人掌，这是非常令人沮丧的。

North, and east, and west he looked with wild, questioning eyes, and then he realized that his wanderings had come to an end, and that there, on that barren crag, he was about to die.

他张大疯狂而困惑的眼睛向北方、西方和东方了望了以后，他明白了，的日子已经到了尽头，自己就要葬身这片荒凉的岩崖之了。