soot
soot — 名詞
1. a soft black powder that forms when materials such as wood, coal, or oil burn, o
煤灰；煤煙
燃料燃燒形成的黑色粉狀物
a soft black powder that forms when materials such as wood, coal, or oil burn, often seen inside chimneys or on surfaces near a fire
After the fire, a thick layer of black soot covered the walls and furniture.
房子火災過後，一層厚厚的黑色煤灰覆蓋了每一面牆壁和每一件家具。
collocation: layer of soot / covered with soot
The chimney sweep removed buckets of soot from the old fireplace in the manor house.
掃煙囪的師傅從大宅老壁爐裡清出了好幾桶煤灰。
collocation: chimney sweep / remove soot
Hao wiped the soot from his face and arms after cleaning out the wood-burning stove.
Hao 清理完柴爐之後，擦掉了臉上和手臂上的煤灰。
The candles left dark streaks of soot on the inside of the glass hurricane lantern.
蠟燭在玻璃颶風燈的內壁留下了深色的煤煙痕跡。
Burning low-quality coal produces far more soot than burning natural gas indoors.
在室內燃燒低品質的煤炭比燃燒天然氣產生多得多的煤煙。
soot — 動詞
- sootpresent simple I / you / we / they
- soots3rd person singular
- sooting-ing form
- sootedpast simple
1. to cover something with soot, or to become covered with soot — for instance, whe
燻黑；沾灰
（使）覆蓋上一層煤灰
to cover something with soot, or to become covered with soot — for instance, when smoke from a fire leaves a black coating on glass, walls, or the inside of a chimney
The inside of the old chimney was heavily sooted after decades of winter fires.
使用了幾十年冬天的爐火之後，舊煙囪的內壁積滿了厚厚的煤灰。
passive: be heavily sooted
Theo accidentally sooted his sleeves while reaching into the fireplace to adjust the logs.
Theo 伸手進壁爐調整木柴時，不小心讓袖子沾滿了煤灰。
transitive: soot + object (body part)
Cooking over the open hearth had sooted every pot and pan in the farmhouse kitchen.
在敞開的灶火上做飯，把農舍廚房裡的每個鍋子和平底鍋都燻黑了。
Workers removed the sooted bricks from the factory smokestack and replaced them with new ones.
工人拆下工廠煙囪裡被燻黑的磚塊，換上了新的。
The oil lamp glass was sooted after three nights of use without power.
油燈的玻璃罩用了三個晚上沒電的日子之後，積了一層煤灰。
文法句型
soot + object
be sooted
sooted + noun (attributive)
用法筆記
This verb is frequently used in the passive voice ('the wall was sooted') or as an attributive adjective before a noun ('sooted glass', 'sooted bricks'). The active form is less common.