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？

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。

The boat was not fastened, and the motion which she occasioned, made it drift from the shore.

船并没有系好，她一动就使它漂离了海岸。

The storm's violent waves would have caused separate pieces floating even briefly on the surface to drift apart.

风暴猛烈的海浪会使漂浮在海面上的碎片漂流分离。

The answer might involve their offspring, which in their larval form drift in the currents to colonize new vents.

答案可能与它们以幼虫形式随着洋流漂流到新的喷气口的后代有关。

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。

Offshore platforms may also lose oil, creating oil slicks that drift ashore and foul the beaches, harming the environment.

近海勘探平台也可能会泄露石油，这样会导致油膜的形成，这些油膜漂流到海岸上而且会污染海滩，从而破坏了环境。

It was apparent that the glaciation occurred in the relatively recent past because the drift was soft, like freshly deposited sediment.

很明显冰川作用就发生在相对不远的过去，因为漂流物很软，像新鲜的沉积物。

In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth's continents were mobile.

1912年，阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳在一个被称为“大陆漂移”的理论中提出，地球上的大陆是可移动的。

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。

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。

Once detached from the ice shelf, these bergs drift in the currents and wind systems surrounding Antarctica and can be found scattered among Antarctica's less colorful icebergs.

一旦与冰架脱离，这些冰山就会受到南极洲附近的洋流和季风系统的作用，并开始漂移。人们可以在南极洲较暗淡的冰山群中找到这些散落的冰山。

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。

As geologists mapped glacial deposits in the late nineteenth century, they became aware that there were several layers of drift, the lower ones corresponding to earlier ice ages.

19世纪晚期，在地质学家对这些冰川沉积进行定位的时候，他们意识到有好几个漂流层，位置较低的对应的是更早的冰川期。

Along the east coast of the United States, the southernmost advance of this ice is recorded by the enormous sand and drift deposits of the terminal moraines that form Long Island and Cape Cod.

沿着美国东海岸，最南边的冰川运动被大量的沙子和终碛石的漂流沉积物（形成了长岛和科德角）所记录下来。

Sun clocks worked, of course, only on clear days; water clocks misbehaved when the temperature fell toward freezing, to say nothing of long-run drift as the result of sedimentation and clogging.

当然，太阳时钟只能在晴天工作；当温度下降到接近冰点时，水钟就会失灵，长期漂浮的东西因为下沉或堵塞而无法工作。

Do you catch my drift ?

你明白我的大意吗？

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。

Here and there a drift across the road was wet and slushy.

路上有零零散散的积雪，满是泥泞。

My German isn't very good, but I got the drift of what she said.

我的德语不太好，但我大致明白她说的意思。

As rural factories lay off workers, people drift toward the cities.

随着乡镇企业裁员，人们陆续移向城市。

Amy thought she caught the faintest drift of Isabel's flowery perfume.

艾米觉得她闻到了伊莎贝尔身上飘来的一丝极微弱的带花香的香水味。

Too late he divined her "drift".

当他明白她的用意时，为时已晚。

Your eyes drift separately and slowly, and you're hard to wake up.

你的眼球运动时断时续，并且很慢，你也很难叫醒。

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。

If the ash cloud were to drift in another direction, flights could be sent around or above it.

届时如果火山灰云飘向另一个方向，飞机可能会被指示绕开或在其上方飞行。

Guided by science, we do not drift off course anymore but further pursue other sophisticated technologies with purpose.

在科学的指导下，我们不再迷失方向，而是更有目的地进一步追求其他的精良技术。

To quote one medical opinion, "Thousands of people drift through life suffering from the effects of too little sleep; the reason is not that they can't sleep."

引用一种医学观点，“成千上万的人一生都在睡眠不足的折磨下苟延残喘；原因不是他们睡不着。”