1. They turned off the main road, past a black patch of common-garden, where sooty cabbage stumps stood shameless. 她们拐下大路，路过一片黑乎乎的菜园。一棵棵白菜根昂首挺胸地立在地上，上面盖满了黑灰。
2. Its coal-burning kilns spew out huge quantities of sooty waste chemical compounds such as sulfur dioxide nitrogen dioxide. 在这里，烧煤的窑炉喷出大量的黑色废气及二氧化硫和二氧化氮等化合物。
3. I may well be being influenced by the geat rarity of Sooty in Taiwan, though, and will happily stand corrected in the event of a more certain ID. 尽管如此，由于灰水剃鸟在台湾相当的罕见，我可能会受到影响而乐于更改我的看法--如果有人提出更确认的辨识方法。
英英解释
adj.
1. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
2. covered with or as if with soot
