The outsiders, whose ties with firms are looser, may be cast adrift.

那些与公司关系较为松散的兼职人员可能会被抛弃。

They are all now cast adrift on an ice floe.

他们现在是真正的如履薄冰。

This, perhaps, is the true source of Oppenheimer's ruin; he shattered his reality, and in doing so, he cast himself adrift, unstuck in time, without any hope of reclaiming the blissful certainties he once enjoyed.

这也许是奥本海默破毁灭的真正原因；他粉碎了他的现实，在这样做的过程中，他让自己随波逐流，脱离了时间的束缚，没有任何希望重新获得他曾经享受过的幸福的确定性。

There are always one or two outright derelicts in the neighborhood, men cast adrift by life, waiting patiently to be cast up on some hospitable and nurturing shore, finding it, often, here.

附近总有一两个彻头彻尾的弃儿，被生活抛弃的人，耐心地等待着被抛到某个好客和滋养的海岸上，经常在这里找到它。