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词汇 jetsam
释义 jetsam
noun[ U ]
usuk /ˈdʒet.səm/
things that are thrown away from ships and then float onto the land (冲到岸上的)船上投弃物
See also
flotsam
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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activated sludge
anti-litter
anti-littering
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dejunk
garbage
garbage disposal
gubbins
high-level waste
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muck
rubbish
sewerage
shavings
skip diving
slag
spoil
tat
white elephant

Examples of jetsam


jetsam
These include flotsam and jetsam, frills and furbelows, and thick and fast.
That does not mean that they are out of work or are flotsam or jetsam, it is the nature of their employment; that is all.
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It has left its concrete flotsam and jetsam, some of which is being cleared by public funds—about £200,000 was spent on this last year.
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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.
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The men employed then were the flotsam and jetsam of the industry, men not physically capable of doing an ordinary day's work.
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If they are in employment they move with the tide and seem tragically destined to become the flotsam and jetsam of a later day.
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We prefer to use our prisons as social dustbins into which we can dump all the flotsam and jetsam of society.
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These labourers are the flotsam and jetsam of industry.
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These are not the flotsam and jetsam of the world.
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This flotsam and jetsam fouls the engines of boats so that they frequently have to slow down or even be taken out of service.
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It leaves worried parents devastated as they watch helplessly the drifting wreckage and the flotsam and jetsam of their children's lives.
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We talked over the years about the refugees as merely flotsam and jetsam.
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They ought not to be allowed to become the flotsam and jetsam of our industrial system.
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Raging gales, and flotsam and jetsam in the water, caused much damage to implements.
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We were looked upon as flotsam and jetsam washed up by the tide.
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