| 词汇 | soot |
| 释义 | soot noun[ U ] uk /sʊt/ us /sʊt/ a black powder composed mainly of carbon, produced when coal, wood, etc. is burned: 煤烟;煤灰 It can be dangerous to let too much soot accumulate inside a chimney.烟囱里堆积过多的煤灰是很危险的。 Compare smut(DIRT) Products of fire ash ashy belch burn something to a cinder cinder clinker ember fumes haze smoke smokeless smokily smoky smut sooty Related wordsooty soot | American Dictionarysoot noun[ U ] us/sʊt/ a black powder produced when coal, wood, etc., is burned Examples of sootsoot The marking with soot seems to refer to non-social behaviour, whereas the tattooing marks the cultural transition of a young woman to womanhood. Breathing in dust and soot caused lung problems. Soot is the final product of the lamp that is managed by the women. A piece of reindeersinew thread is blackened with soot, and is then drawn under and through the skin by means of a needle. Such transfer would be particularly advantageous, since a coating of soot would protect the organisms from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation. Here boys, some as young as four years old, were used to brush the soot out of chimneys. They would use some fat with the soot. They slept in cellars on bags of soot and seldom washed. Dust and soot loading for large-scale impacts might be significant. At this the loon became furious and gathered the soot from its cooking pot and threw it all at the raven, with the result that its whole body became black. Practically no soot was produced. Their sums are connected with the price of soot and the price of sweeping chimneys. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The soot and slime, the slagheaps and the sewer rivers which disfigure so much of our country were applauded as a sign of our prosperity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is because the city-dweller swallows week after week and month after month unnecessary quantities of soot, ash and tar. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By getting rid of the visible atmospheric pollution, the grit and the soot, we believed as a nation that the problem had been solved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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