drift away

基本解释

"The pole's not going to drift away in a crazy manner," Landerer notes, adding that it shouldn't induce any unfortunate feedback in Earth's climate.
“地轴没有以疯狂的方式漂移，”兰德雷尔指出。他补充说，这应该不会引起地球气候做出灾难性的反馈。
Throughout the summer of 2003, remaining fragments of the shelf broke away, and the mélange of icebergs and smaller ice pieces from the previous summer’s collapse began to drift away.
2003年整个夏季之中，上一个夏天冰架崩塌中残留的碎片逐渐分解，而这些冰山和更小冰块的混合物也开始渐渐漂走。
If you close your eyes you will be more likely to drift away on thoughts and stories.
如果闭上了眼睛，你更可能思绪漂移，胡思乱想。

Tendency to tune out or drift away in the middle of a page or a conversation.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Delivered from Distraction'
After four or five hours, the Zodiac began to drift away from the iceberg.
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Yet some voters are beginning to drift away from the rigid identity politics of old.
ECONOMIST: Politics