| 词汇 | flotsam |
| 释义 | flotsam noun[ U ] uk /ˈflɒt.səm/ us /ˈflɑːt-/(alsoflotsam and jetsam) pieces of broken wood and other waste materials found on the beach or floating on the sea: （冲到海滩上或在海面上漂浮的）碎木，零碎杂物 We wandered along the shore, stepping over the flotsam that had washed up in the night.我们沿着海岸漫步，跨过夜晚冲上岸边的零碎杂物。 anything or anyone that is not wanted or not considered to be important or useful: 无用的东西;无价值的人 The homeless sleep in doorways and stations - we step over their bodies like so much human flotsam.无家可归的人睡在门口和车站——我们跨过他们的身体时就好像他们的存在毫无意义。 Rubbish and waste activated sludge anti-litter anti-littering debris dejunk garbage disposal gubbins high-level waste influent jetsam litter muck rubbish sewerage shavings skip diving slag spoil tat white elephant Examples of flotsamflotsam 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. See all examples of flotsam 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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