flotsam
英 [ˈflɒt.səm]
美 [ˈflɑːt-]
- n. 废料；（遇难船的）漂流货物；浮货；零碎物
星级词汇:
记忆方法
将“flotsam”分解为“floats”+“-sam”，可以想象为漂浮在水面的“碎片”或“残骸”。这种方法通过将单词拆解成两个部分来帮助记忆其含义，即漂浮的残骸或漂浮物。
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中文词源
flotsam 漂浮物
来自古法语flotaison, 漂浮，词源同float.-aison, 名词后缀，同-ation, 拼写受some影响。参照jetsam.
英语词源
- 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; see flotilla) + -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.
In British law, flotsam are goods found floating on the sea as a consequence of a shipwreck or action of wind or waves; jetsam are things cast out of a ship in danger of being wrecked, and afterward washed ashore, or things cast ashore by the sailors. Whatever sinks is lagan. Flotsam and jetsam figuratively for "odds and ends" is attested by 1861.
权威例句
- 1. The water was full of flotsam and refuse.
- 水里漂满了垃圾和废物。
- 2. He was another of the city's flotsam.
- 他是这个城市里又一个流浪者。
- 3. The beaches are wide and filled with interesting flotsam and jetsam .
- 海滩宽阔，到处是有趣的被冲上岸的零碎杂物。
- 4. Sick and starving refugees are the flotsam and jetsam of war.
- 生病和饥饿的难民是遭战祸而流离失所的苦命人.
- 5. You know the difference between flotsam and jetsam?
- 你知道流浪者和难民的不同之处 吗 ?