drifter

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Afterwards, he was a foul-mouthed drunkard, a drifter and a failure.
但是事故發(fā)生后就變成了一個(gè)滿口污言穢語(yǔ)的酒鬼、一個(gè)流浪漢、一個(gè)失敗的人。
As a young man, after a Cambridge education, he stumbled into a career as a drifter, a collector of butterflies and author of strange books.
在劍橋接受教育后，他一個(gè)年青人，卻茫然地開(kāi)始了一個(gè)流浪漢的生涯，后來(lái)成了蝴蝶的收藏家和一些奇怪的書(shū)的作者。
But the squid's titanic reputation is slowly being deflated, thanks in part to a new study that says the creature is no more than a sluggish, gelatinous drifter.
但烏賊的盛名正被慢慢地削弱，部分地歸結(jié)于最新的一項(xiàng)研究，研究表明它只不過(guò)是個(gè)行動(dòng)緩慢、呈凝膠狀的浮游生物。

Potts cooks breakfast for a young drifter named Hal (Sebastian Stan), who is noticed by Madge.
NEWYORKER: Heartland
That drifter sensibility gives Dondero a certain perspective on the people he encounters and the places he passes through.
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Is a star as solid as he is really the right choice to play a ghostly drifter of no fixed abode?
NEWYORKER: Violent Screen

wet drifter 濕式架式鑿巖機(jī)
salmon drifter 鮭流網(wǎng)漁船
City Drifter 城市浮游
air drifter [礦業(yè)]風(fēng)動(dòng)鑿巖機(jī);氣動(dòng)架式鑿巖機(jī);架式鑿巖機(jī);[礦業(yè)]架式風(fēng)鉆
Medium Drifter 牛仔褲

(person) someone who does not have a permanent home or job and moves from one place to another or from one job to another

If you describe someone as a drifter, you mean that they do not stay in one place or in one job for very long.