flotsam

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Between exclamations of delight at the telltale flotsam we discovered, Betty would share more of her findings.
我们面对所发现的标志性漂流物兴奋不已，而贝蒂则会与我们分享她更多的发现。
I don’t have to tell you about the information mess, of which that email is just one tiny but toxic piece of flotsam.
我不必告诉你有关信息的混乱，这封不实邮件不过是信息垃圾的沧海一粟罢了，而且我们不知道自己什么时候会沦陷。
The first belch from the mountain sent all of its force and flotsam north and east, away from Portland; the second caught a westerly wind, and the ash drizzled down on the city.
第一次，火山全力将其废灰往北部和东部方向喷发，喷出了波特兰市；第二次，它遇上了一阵西风，于是那些火山灰就如毛毛雨般在这个城市落下。

Google (founded in 1998) makes sure you pull up less flotsam when you search.
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These kids scoured the shore for flotsam and jetsam to play with, bring home or eat.
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Many, who have been holding onto to the flotsam and jetsam of the housing disaster, give up.
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pieces of broken wood and other waste materials found on the beach or floating on the sea

Flotsam is useless material, for example bits of wood and plastic, that is floating on the ocean or has been left by the ocean on the shore.
You can use flotsam and jetsam to refer to small or unimportant items that are found together, especially ones that have no connection with each other.