She had been cut adrift from everything she had known.

她曾被迫与她熟悉的一切切断关系。

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Levy was cut adrift when the recession first reduced her hours and then wiped out her job in June.

经济萧条先是蚕食她的工作时间，尔后在六月份夺走了她的工作，从那以后勒维被迫过着漂泊不定的生活。

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They returned to find that someone had cut their boat adrift.

他们回来时发现有人切断了缆绳任船在水中漂流。

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But it looks as though big chunks of the continent must be cut adrift, or the whole of it will sink.

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Then, in some trick of the light, or because she sagged her chin into her wrinkling neck, or her too short trousers rode up above her ankle socks as she was sitting cross-legged, Ally saw for a moment the old woman she would become, vulnerable and stubborn, cut adrift.

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Mr Obama must make clear that he will not cut them adrift and will not tolerate attempts to destabilise their governments.

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