In time, whole communities build on the flotsam.

渐渐地，漂流物上形成了群落。

Like his Waterloo, it's a painting of victims, so much human flotsam and jetsam.

就像特纳的滑铁卢一样，这幅作品也是以牺牲者为主体，众多的尸首和船只残骸。

..So the faces of these figures are featureless because they are, after all, the flotsam of humanity.

这些人物的脸是没有五官的 因为在人性面前 它们终究不值一提。

The idea that the smell of plastic flotsam might lure animals to their doom first emerged in 2016.

塑料垃圾的气味可能会导致动物灭亡的想法最早出现在2016年。

Now investigators are poring over a battered piece of flotsam that washed ashore on a beach on the island of Reunion.

现在调查人员正在仔细研究被冲到留尼汪岛海滩上的一块损严重的漂浮物。

The lucky ones found snacks in the flotsam.

运的人在漂浮物中找到了零食。

Crystal Cove features an historic collection of classic beach shacks built from disused Hollywood movie sets, and the flotsam and jetsam of the ocean.

这里备有各种历史悠久的经典海滩棚屋，而这些棚屋都是由荷里活电影旧有道具，以及海洋漂浮物和弃置货物打造而成。

I spoke to an oceanographer today who said that flotsam could make its way or debris could make its way all the way across to the La Reunion.

今天我采访的一名海洋学家表示，这块漂浮物，或者说这块残骸可能一路漂流至留尼汪岛。

Her letters from Stephen were necessarily few, and her sense of fidelity clung to the last she had received as a wrecked mariner clings to flotsam.

她从斯蒂芬那里来的信肯定很少，她对最后一封信的忠诚感就像一个失事的水手紧紧抓住漂浮物一样。

Marvellously renewed, he would walk again in the Piazza di Spanga at twilight, moving in that drifting flotsam of dark women and ragged beggars, of austere, barefooted friars.

焕然一新的他将在黄昏时分再次走在斯潘加广场上， 在那漂流的黑衣女人和衣衫褴褛的乞丐， 以及简朴的赤脚修士的漂流中行走。

Untold tonnes end up as irretrievable ocean flotsam, which sunlight and salt fragment into microscopic pieces that attract toxins and may be gulped by creatures that become seafood.

无数吨塑料最后变成了无法清理的海洋漂浮垃圾，在日光和盐分的作用下破裂成会吸附毒素的微小碎片，可能会被海洋生物吃掉，最终又上了我们的餐桌。

For many decades, linguists regarded such utterances as largely irrelevant noise, the flotsam and jetsam that accumulate on the margins of language when speakers aren't as articulate as they'd like to be.

几十年来， 语言学家一直将这类表达视为基本无关紧要的噪音，是说话者无法如愿清晰表达时， 语言边缘积累的浮沫残渣。

I was gratified at last to see some profit taking in these companies, many of which remind me of the year 2000 and that flotsam and jetsam that hurt so many people.

我终于看到这些公司出现了一些获利了结，它们中的许多让我想起了2000年，那时的泡沫和垃圾股曾让许多人遭受重创。

And it is an object, so ubiquitous, that if you saw one laying around on a beach, you couldn't be sure whether someone brought it there, or if it is a flotsam from a different part of the planet.

它是一种如此普遍的物品，如果你在海滩上看到一把单体椅，你根本无法确定，这是有人特意带过来的，还是从地球的另一端漂过来的。