vārdnīca angļu - angļu

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drift angļu valodā:

1. move forward


I want to move forward with the project at a fast pace

2. stream


The stream becomes shallower as you move upriver.
A small stream runs by my house.
A stream of people came out of the theater.
Drink water from a stream.
Our policies and systems are getting outdated and need revising, but to try to swap horses while crossing a stream might be dangerous.
The three animals tried to help the old man, the monkey using its ability to climb to collect fruit and nuts, and the fox catching fish in the stream to bring to him.
There's been a constant stream of complaint calls since last week.
It must be dangerous to swim in this rapid stream.
When I regained my senses, it seemed that fur had grown on my fingers and knees. When it became slightly brighter, I looked at my reflection in a mountain stream, and I realized that I had become a tiger.
If this organization is left as it is, it will soon go bankrupt; its recovery is as difficult as swapping horses while crossing a stream.
Time is but the stream I go a fishing in.
I love to fish in the trout stream behind my house.
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Angļu vārds "drift"(stream) notiek komplektos:

Hopes and fears

3. to be carried along by currents of water



Angļu vārds "drift"(to be carried along by currents of water) notiek komplektos:

The incredibile journey 1

4. float


He can't even float let alone swim.
Hold the float.
A dog was rescued from an iceberg floating 18 miles from land in the Baltic Sea
I saw - or thought I saw - something white and shapeless float through the trees.
Yea, would to God, I were among the roses, That lean to kiss you as you float between While on the lowest branch a bud uncloses A bud uncloses, to touch you, my queen.
The Kawagoe festival float has the shape of what's called a hoko float. It has three, or four, wheels attached.
If you float a one yen coin on water and move a magnet slowly towards it then the coin will approach the magnet.
If plants and stones are in the water then this will happen: the plants float and the rocks sink.
I like floating on my back in the pool. A balloon floated across the sky.
Tasks on a critical path have no float.
Drop pierogi into boiling water. Cook gently 3-5 minutes, or until they float.
That wood is very light. It won’t sink in the water; it will float.
Definition if you are floating, you are lying on water without sinking
Everybody in our club helped to decorate our float for the festival with paper flowers.
Will’s mother had given us eighty pounds as a ‘float’.

5. shift


In order to keep our feet warm we had to shift from one foot to another and keep moving.
When I speak to a Westerner, I have to shift mental gears, so to speak.
shift work
History has shown that every financial crisis is followed by a technological shift.
Relationships might end with no real explanation as to why. And when that happens, respect the shift.
Media attention has shifted recently onto environmental issues.
I'm sorry but Paul called in sick and I'm going to need you to work his shift.
Freddy's been working the graveyard shift the past month, so he hasn't been able to see any of his friends who work normal hours.
Forming an information infrastructure, the real impact of the information highway is an expectation of new economic development due to a shift from a tangible hardware-industry to brain-oriented software-industry.
Shift the sofa so that it faces the fireplace.
My shift lasts from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Shifts in the oceanic temperature distrubition can cause significant weather shifts.
I had the breakfast shift – I had to go in at five a.m.
Although not explicitly referred to it is a seismic shift of great concern. The pilot who was supposed to fly the plane refused to do so because he head already completed this shift.
Spiky horsehairs pierce me every time I shift.