flotsam
flotsam 英 [ˈflɒtsəm] 美 [ˈflɑtsəm]
n. 废料；（遇难船的）漂流货物；浮货；零碎物
名词复数:flotsams
- Flotsam is the floating wreckage of a ship. You'll often hear it used with the word jetsam, which refers to floating objects that have been thrown from a ship, usually to lighten it before it sinks.
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- n. 废料；（遇难船的）漂流货物；浮货；零碎物
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1. Between exclamations of delight at the telltale flotsam we discovered, Betty would share more of her findings.
我们面对所发现的标志性漂流物兴奋不已，而贝蒂则会与我们分享她更多的发现。
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2. I don’t have to tell you about the information mess, of which that email is just one tiny but toxic piece of flotsam.
我不必告诉你有关信息的混乱，这封不实邮件不过是信息垃圾的沧海一粟罢了，而且我们不知道自己什么时候会沦陷。
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3. The first belch from the mountain sent all of its force and flotsam north and east, away from Portland; the second caught a westerly wind, and the ash drizzled down on the city.
第一次，火山全力将其废灰往北部和东部方向喷发，喷出了波特兰市；第二次，它遇上了一阵西风，于是那些火山灰就如毛毛雨般在这个城市落下。
- flotsam (n.) c. 1600, from Anglo-French floteson, from Old French flotaison "a floating" (Modern French flottaison), from floter "to float, set afloat" (of Germanic origin and cognate with float) + -aison, from Latin -ation(em). Spelled flotsen in English till mid-19c. when it altered, perhaps under influence of many English words in -some. Folk-etymologized in dialect as floatsome.
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