| 词汇 | example_english_flotsam |
| 释义 | Examples of flotsamThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The people we represent are always at the mercy of accidental happenings; they are the flotsam and jetsam of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are obsessed by what one might call the superficialities, or the flotsam and jetsam, of politics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not the case that in every branch of agriculture there is a certain amount of flotsam and jetsam to be found? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They become community flotsam and eke out a miserable existence, roaming the streets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under the present system it may be-the lot of any employed person shortly to be thrown up with the flotsam and jetsam of humanity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If people are in any doubt that they might have been in contact with any of the flotsam or seaweed, their local doctor would be the first person to contact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The man not only lost his self-respect, he felt that he was no more than flotsam and jetsam, and a bally nuisance to the missus as well. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One can have recovery and the recession disappearing and our unskilled people can be left like flotsam on the seashore unless we do something about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I simply do not see how the community can any longer evade the responsibility of providing for this flotsam on the ocean of our so-called civilisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They wash around like flotsam and jetsam. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Eighty people were in the lifeboat the rest clung to flotsam or floated in the sea. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The house museum exhibits archival materials including an 18-minute long movie, war photographs, military equipment, flags, military uniforms, flotsam and jetsam. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His home is built from flotsam and sunken debris. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Young fishes are also often found in or near shipwrecks, beams or supports, jetties, flotsam and sea buoys. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Before anyone realized that they were firing upon an innocuous piece of flotsam, a tragic accident occurred. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The southern sand and mudflats of the island entrap large quantities of flotsam - mainly items of plastic and rubber floating in on the tides. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They also associate with drifting flotsam such as logs and pallets, and sonic tagging indicates some follow moving vessels. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Other threats include the ingestion of plastic flotsam. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The beaches are strewn with marine litter composed mainly of oceanic flotsam deposited by currents, like plastic bottles, glass bulbs, polystyrene foam and cans. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They then sank the boat and grabbed on to the flotsam of the wreckage until they made it to shore. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Great white sharks also test-bite buoys, flotsam, and other unfamiliar objects, and they might grab a human or a surfboard to identify what it is. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many animals that live on or in the sea consume flotsam by mistake, as it often looks similar to their natural prey. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They aggregate in considerable numbers around objects such as drifting flotsam, rafts, jellyfish and floating seaweed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Separate upstream pilings were used as protective barriers against flotsam and possible attacks while guard towers protected the entries. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On the southern part of the island, they feed primarily on flotsam, as well as insects and maple twigs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Dales assemblage artwork has been described as joy in jetsam, philosophy in flotsam. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Almost all the houses are very old, with much use of timber, some of it from flotsam. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Emigration occurs as animals ride flotsam, swim, fly, or ride the wind to neighboring islands. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Flotsam from the mountain sides and glaciers also collects in tangles that can look like some sort of monster. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Over the next three days searchers looked for survivors but could only find flotsam and eventually, six bodies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Weeks of searching by government and local fishing boats produced only flotsam and the body of a young seaman, who was never identified. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They may have arrived with flotsam after storms further west, or accidentally or deliberately (as food) been introduced by prehistoric seafarers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The convergence zones associated with internal wave troughs often accumulate oils and flotsam that occasionally progress shoreward with the slicks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Steller, reading sea currents and flotsam and wildlife, insisted they should sail northeast. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. As the plastic flotsam photodegrades into smaller and smaller pieces, it concentrates in the upper water column. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We must first clear away the flotsam of a decayed culture. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A molid in need of cleaning will locate a patch of floating algae or flotsam that is home to half moon perch. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Ingestion of plastic flotsam is another problem, one faced by many seabirds. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Ingestion of plastic flotsam is a problem for the family as it is for many other seabirds. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many of those who entered the water grabbed onto the flotsam and jetsam as the boat quickly broke up. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Flotsam can be blown by the wind, or follow the flow of ocean currents, often ending up in the middle of oceanic gyres where currents are weakest. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Juvenile bigeye tuna associate closely with floating objects such as logs, buoys and other flotsam, which makes them susceptible to purse seine fishing in conjunction with man-made fish aggregation devices. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Males collect loose nesting material (twigs, vines, flotsam) from around the colony and off the ocean surface and return to the nesting site where the female builds the nest. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Using mostly found and repurposed material (they use the word flotsam) like driftwood, wire, bicycle parts and bones, they use both computers and live actors to create audiovisual concerts. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Mountains form a remote and stolid backdrop to the broken flotsam of the plain. The men employed then were the flotsam and jetsam of the industry, men not physically capable of doing an ordinary day's work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no doubt that this tide in human affairs carries with it a certain amount of flotsam and jetsam we would rather be without. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they are in employment they move with the tide and seem tragically destined to become the flotsam and jetsam of a later day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, is a high radioactive content still being found in flotsam on the beaches? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are answers; we need not be flotsam on the high seas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We talked over the years about the refugees as merely flotsam and jetsam. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We prefer to use our prisons as social dustbins into which we can dump all the flotsam and jetsam of society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They ought not to be allowed to become the flotsam and jetsam of our industrial system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were looked upon as flotsam and jetsam washed up by the tide. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Raging gales, and flotsam and jetsam in the water, caused much damage to implements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The property claimed by the admiral was in one celebrated case categorised as goods, flotsam, jetsam or lagan. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Interim measures must be given priority or the lifeboat will arrive to find nothing but flotsam. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even so, only those who were living in the towns—the flotsam and jetsam of the population— finally left. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the dross, the flotsam and jetsam of the private stock exchange system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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