1SEPARATEif people drift or grow apart, their relationship slowly becomes less close 逐渐疏远
Lewis and his father drifted apart after he moved to New York.
刘易斯搬到纽约后和父亲逐渐疏远了。
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grow/drift apart• I think Dan and Tina just grew apart.• Instead, it was suggested the couple, who married in their early 20s, had simply grown up and grown apart.• We grew up, went off to different places, drifted apart.• Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.• Such barrenness is the inevitableoutcome where two people are growing apart and out of love.• Work-inhibited students have not grown apart from their parents and become independent.• If there is any twosome in a family likely to drift apart, it is a pair of brothers.• Later in life, Lewis and his fatherdrifted apart, never to be reconciled.
2phrasal verbphr vSEPARATEif two people grow apart, their relationship becomes less close 〔彼此的关系〕越来越疏远
The couple had been growing apart for years.
这对夫妇多年来日渐疏远。
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grow apart• Instead, it was suggested the couple, who married in their early 20s, had simply grown up and grown apart.• Virgin and Coutts had long been growing apart.• Such barrenness is the inevitableoutcome where two people are growing apart and out of love.• He said he and wife Brenda had been growing apart for at least a year.• Work-inhibited students have not grown apart from their parents and become independent.