| 单词 | jetsam |
| 释义 | jetsam (once / 21807 pages) n Jetsam is wreckage from a ship floating in the water. If you see jetsam, there must've been an accident at sea. You often see this word in the phrase flotsam and jetsam, and both words mean the same thing: wreckage from a ship floating in the sea. If a ship crashes into an iceberg, there's going to be a lot of jetsam. In a naval battle, blown-up ships will produce jetsam. Any wreckage that sinks is not jetsam: jetsam is rubble that floats. One thing's for sure: no captain wants their boat to end up as jetsam. WORD FAMILYjetsam: jetsams USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Camp had showed Republicans what couldn’t work, and his jetsam became ready-made chunks of legislation for his successors. Wall Street Journal(Nov 20, 2016) Instead, their voices poke into our consciousness in shards, like flotsam and jetsam carried by a rushing stream of consciousness. New York Times(Sep 29, 2016) Hanjin’s demise just adds to the flotsam and jetsam already washing up on the shores of the shipping industry. Wall Street Journal(Sep 02, 2016) 1n the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm Hyper part, portion something less than the whole of a human artifact 2n the floating wreckage of a ship Syn|Hyper flotsam wreckage the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked |
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