engelska-spanska översättning av drift

ir a la derivaSi este no se sustituye por uno mucho más potente –el motor del Tratado Constitucional– nuestro barco común reducirá la velocidad y podría comenzar a ir a la deriva. If it is not replaced with a much more powerful one – the engine of the Constitutional Treaty – our common ship will reduce speed and may begin to drift.
derivaEs obvio que llevamos cuatro meses a la deriva. It is clear that we have been drifting for four months. Aplaudo las declaraciones de la Comisión que condenan esta deriva. I welcome the Commission’s statements condemning that drift. ¿Hace falta incurrir en una fobia y una deriva de salud y regulación? Do we need to sink into a health and regulatory phobia and drift?

derivarPero, muy brevemente, el informe no deja de derivar hacia una serie de veleidades federalistas. Very soon, however, the report cannot stop itself drifting off towards a series of federalist fads. Aparte de eso, espero que la presencia del Comisario responsable de la ayuda al desarrollo no sea un indicio del rumbo en que derivará Europa en el futuro. Apart from that, I hope that the presence of the Commissioner with responsibility for development aid is not an indication of the direction in which Europe will be drifting in future.
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errarLo hemos visto errar de cumbre en cumbre incapaz o reacio a ejercer la clase de liderazgo que nosotros, los conservadores británicos, defendimos en junio. He gave every appearance of drifting from summit to summit unable or unwilling to provide the kind of leadership we British Conservatives called for in June.
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Movement; that which moves or is moved
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse
A place along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side
The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments
A tool
A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles
The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene
A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel
A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler
To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc
To move haphazardly without any destination
To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel
To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body
To drive into heaps
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps
To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect
To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See

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