jetsam
/jet-suhm/US // ˈdʒɛt səm //UK // (ˈdʒɛtsəm) //
喷雾剂,喷气机,喷雾器,喷射器
Related Words
castaway逃亡者,逃亡的人,遗弃者,冒险者stray流浪者,流浪汉,流浪的,流浪动物ragamuffin褴褛蓬松,褴褛蓬松的人,褴褛蓬松者,褴褛小人urchin顽童,胆小鬼,顽石,海胆foundling弃儿,创始者,弃婴,孤儿drop下降,跌落,掉落,滴orphan孤儿,遗孤,孤家寡人,鳏夫flotsam水草,水草丛生,泥沙,水草丛中fetch取,取得,取来,获取dogie小狗,狗仔,狗狗,狗仔队cargo货物,货物运输,货物运输方面junk垃圾,垃圾桶,废料,杂物wreckage残骸,残垣断壁,残局,废墟odds and ends零碎物品,零散物品,零星物品,杂物castoffs遗弃物,废弃物,弃儿
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency, which sink where jettisoned or are washed ashore.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inflotsam
as inwaif
Synonyms
Examples
After being rescued from the ocean several times Buster spent the rest of the afternoon collecting flotsam and jetsam.
We were in hopes they would look upon our boat as flotsam and jetsam, of which there was more or less strewn upon the beach.
The flotsam and jetsam of too many sentimental stories and fairy tales were afloat in the child's active mind.
He gathered it in and swept his tiny flash around in search of other jetsam from his tool kit.
He might just as well, he might much better, slump down in a sodden heap amid the rest of the jetsam.
No, there had been no wreck, yet all about her lay the wave-sodden flotsam and jetsam of many past disasters.
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