ash

1 On the ground, huddling beneath ponchos blocking out ash, thin streaks of light, we hold on to each other and breathe.

2 The ashes within me swirled and filled up my throat again.

3 When the fire had burned down to embers, the boys raided the pushcarts of the Jewish merchants and stole potatoes which they roasted in the ashes.

4 They tried to help her with applications of spiderwebs and balls of ash, but it was like trying to hold back a spring with one's hands.

5 Bernabe carried the ash drawer from his kitchen stove out to the chicken pen and dumped the ashes over the fence so the chickens could fluff it into their feathers and kill mites.

6 Instead of completely burning organic matter to ash, ancient farmers burned it incompletely to make charcoal, then stirred the charcoal into the soil.

7 I turned and jumped back as the top of the platform toppled into the ashes beneath.

8 Aaron stood up, took his cigarette back, put it in the stand-up ash tray.

9 The ash slats work very well, and are quite springy and comfortable.

10 Her eyes wandered over the blackened debris until they caught on something bright nearly lost among the ashes, something small and brilliant blue.

11 Djel, the wellspring, who fed the seas and rains, and the roots of the sacred ash.

12 “So this is volcanic ash. How long before it leaves?”

13 Ash and bone is Astapor, and ash and bone its people.

14 We powdered ourselves with ash to imitate ghosts.

15 ...a high forest of oak and ash.

生长着橡树和白蜡树的高山林

16 He even accused Father Antonio Isabel of complicity for having marked his sons with indelible ashes so that they could be identified by their enemies.

17 It’s strange that anyone would be interested in this ugly thing except for maybe wanting to burn it and dance on the ashes.

18 The blowing snow had covered the ashes at the base of the pyre and crept up the dead man’s leg as far as his ankle.

19 After they finished, they cleaned the house, emptied the coal ash, and washed everything they had used before leaving.

20 I smelled of paint thinner and was covered in dust the color of ash, but he didn’t know that.

1 苍白

white green sick blank wan pale lunar complexion bleak lymphatic sickly ghastly pasty lurid colourless bloodless mealy ashy doughy pallid waxen tallowy caesious pallor sickliness chalk blench

2 把…烧成灰烬

incinerate

3 梣树

ashen ashen

4 遗骨

remain relic reliquiae

5 白杨

aspen cottonwood asp abele white poplar

6 木犀科

olive jasmine lilac privet forsythia ligustrum manna ash

7 梣木

ashen ashen

8 木

wooden ashen ligneous osier angelica tree

9 废墟

ruin wreckage desolation dust remainder demolition shambles waste wreck wasteland

10 灰色

griseous grizzly grey grizzled ashen ashy grizzle cinereous greyness

11 碳酸钠

soda

12 粉末

powder

13 皮

skinny skin scale leather jacket peel cortex slough shuck tegument

14 灰

dusky cinder ashy ashen cinerary greyly dust Aberdeen muttonbird

15 灰白色

white blank toned ashen cinereous canescent off-white

16 奖杯

cup plate bowl pot trophy quaich

17 灰烬

cinder scoria ashen ashes cinder dust ashy cindery ash fire

18 遗骸

dust burial reliquiae bone dust relic carcass carcase reliquiae remain

19 骨灰

bone ash cremains cinerary bone ash

20 火山灰

tephra tephra terras tarras trass