Floating objects or material; flotsam. 漂浮物漂浮的物品或材料;漂浮物
Sick and starving refugees are the flotsam and jetsam of war. 贫病交迫的难民都是在战争中流离失所的。
After the storm, the sea was covered with flotsam and jetsam. 暴风雨后,海上漂浮着遇难船只的残骸和货物。
flotsam
[ noun ] the floating wreckage of a ship <noun.artifact>
Flotsam \Flot"sam\, Flotson \Flot"son\, n. [F. flotter to float. See {FFlotilla}, and cf. {Jetsam}.] (Law) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. --Blackstone.
Years of war in neighboring Afghanistan have washed a flotsam of exotic weapons over the border into Pakistan, among them automatic rifles and even rocket launchers.
The "official" Pentagon response is that the material is flotsam and jetsam washed ashore by ocean currents, but that doesn't explain how some of it was found far inland or why it included items which don't float, such as batteries.
For a voyager to an anachronistic land ruled by despots living off the flotsam of a failed Utopia, Mr. Baker did just fine.