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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. 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
Synonyms
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castoffs遗弃物,废弃物,弃儿odds and ends零碎物品,零散物品,零星物品,杂物sea-drift
as inwaif
Synonyms
castaway逃亡者,逃亡的人,遗弃者,冒险者dogie小狗,狗仔,狗狗,狗仔队drop下降,跌落,掉落,滴fetch取,取得,取来,获取flotsam水草,水草丛生,泥沙,水草丛中foundling弃儿,创始者,弃婴,孤儿orphan孤儿,遗孤,孤家寡人,鳏夫ragamuffin褴褛蓬松,褴褛蓬松的人,褴褛蓬松者,褴褛小人stray流浪者,流浪汉,流浪的,流浪动物urchin顽童,胆小鬼,顽石,海胆homeless one无家可归的人,无家可归者,无家可归的一个,无家可归的一个人

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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