flotsam
n[U]
1 parts of a wrecked ship or its cargo found floating in the sea (在海上漂浮的)遇難船只的殘骸或貨物. Cf 參看 jetsam.
2 (idm 習語) ,flotsam and `jetsam
(a) people without homes or work or those who have had to leave their houses; vagrants and tramps or refugees 流離失所的人; 無業游民; 流浪者; 難民.
(b) various unimportant objects; bits and pieces; odds and ends 無價值的東西; 零碎物品.