drift

• n. 漂流、漂流; 傾向; 漂流
• vi. 漂流する、漂流する；漂流する
• vt. ...を漂わせる； ...を風に乗せる

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drift

drift: [13] Drift comes ultimately from the same Germanic base as produced drive, and etymologically means ‘driving or being driven’, but as far as we can tell it did not exist in Old English, and the word as we now have it is a borrowing from other Germanic languages. Its first recorded use is in the sense ‘snowdrift’, which points to Old Norse drift as the source, but later more general applications were probably reinforced by Dutch drift.
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drift (n.)

c. 1300, literally "a being driven" (of snow, etc.); not recorded in Old English; either a suffixed form of drive (v.) (compare thrift/thrive) or borrowed from Old Norse drift "snow drift," or Middle Dutch drift "pasturage, drove, flock," both from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (cognates: Danish and Swedish drift, German Trift), from PIE root *dhreibh- "to drive, push" (see drive (v.)). Sense of "what one is getting at" is from 1520s. Meaning "controlled slide of a sports car" attested by 1955.

drift (v.)

late 16c., from drift (n.). Figurative sense of "be passive and listless" is from 1822. Related: Drifted; drifting.

1. There was a drift of smoke above the trees.

林の上空に煙が漂っている。

2.As rural factories shed labour，people drift towards the cities.

農村の工場が次々とリストラされているため、人々は徐々に都市に流れている。

3.Anybody who 's listening will get the drift of what he was saying.

耳を傾けている人なら誰でも彼の言うことの大意を悟るだろう。

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

路上には時々吹雪いて積もった雪があり、ぬかるんで滑りやすい。

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

エミは、イザベルから漂う微かな花の香りの香水の匂いを感じた。