jetsam
n[U]
1 goods thrown overboard from a ship in distress to lighten it; such goods washed up ashore 遇难船只为减轻重量而抛弃的货物; 冲到岸上的这类物品. Cf 参看 flotsam.
2 (idm 习语) flotsam and jetsam => flotsam.
🗣️ 情景例句
He was our go-between.
他是我们的媒人。
I usually go to bed at about midnight.
我通常在大约半夜睡觉。
The men of our family waded down through our flooded meadows with boathooks, in the hope of being able to grapple a corner of the raft and pull it out of the current towards our bank.