The boiler was too full of water, and black sooty mud soon covered the whole engine and the young engineer.

由于锅炉里的水装太满，黑色的煤泥很快就覆盖了发动机和年轻的工程师。

Sooty, cheap lace curtains hung at the window.

乌黑的、廉价的蕾丝窗帘挂在窗户。

He likes it back here in the bakery where the floors are white with flour—whiter than the sooty walls and ceiling.

他喜欢留在面包店的后面，这里的地板常撒满白色的面粉，比沾满煤烟的墙壁和天花板还要白。

In the past, the material of choice has been carbon black, a sooty substance made by the incomplete combustion of petroleum products.

过去，备选材料为碳黑，这是一种石油产品不完全燃烧后形成的黑色物质。

We will hope Tom will be wiser, now he has got safe out of his sooty old shell.

我们希望汤姆能变明， 现在他已经安全地摆脱了乌黑的旧外壳。

With food so hard to come by in the open ocean, newly hatched sooty tern chicks are easy pickings for the larger frigate birds.

在海洋中寻找食物是如此的困难，刚出壳的乌燕鸥，对大一些的军舰鸟来说，就是垂手可的食物。

He sat there, his face pressed close against the cold, sooty glass of the window, through most of the long night journey.

在漫漫长夜旅程的大部分时间里， 他坐在那里， 脸紧贴着冰冷、乌黑的玻璃窗。

Small, sooty chunks were piled into tubs and wheeled out, then loaded onto coal trucks that hurtled down the country roads, sprinkling a layer of ash everywhere.

又小又黑的煤块被装进桶里，用滑轮运出去，然后装运煤的卡车，卡车奔驰在乡间的道路，所到之处，无不给周围蒙一层煤灰。

We crowded to the little window, which Mackenzie took care to fill; and a minute yielded no sound but the crunch and slither of constabulary boots upon sooty slates.

我们挤到麦肯齐小心翼翼地填满的小窗前； 一分钟后，除了警察靴子踩在煤黑的石板的嘎吱声和滑行声外， 什么声音也没有。

The brilliant lights and sooty shades which struggled upon the skin and clothes of the persons standing round caused their lineaments and general contours to be drawn with Dureresque vigour and dash.

明亮的火光和乌黑的阴影，竞相投射在四周人群的脸和衣服，使他们的面部和身形，都像丢勒用浓墨重彩勾勒出来的一样。

" I do not think" —said Samuel Whiskers, pausing to take a look at Tom Kitten—" I do not think it will be a good pudding. It smells sooty" .

“我不认为” ——塞缪尔威威斯克斯说， 停下来看了看汤姆小猫——“我认为这不会是一个好的布丁。它闻起来有煤烟味” 。

He has washed his sooty face, and put on his Sabbath-day clothes, and looks, as if he would gladly be merry, if any kind body would only teach him how!

他洗了他那张乌黑的脸，穿了安息日的衣服，看起来，如果有人能教他怎么做，他会很高兴！

Unfortunately the morning was drizzly, and an angel could not have concealed the fact that Barnard was shedding sooty tears outside the window, like some weak giant of a Sweep.

不幸的是，早下着毛毛雨，天使也无法掩饰巴纳德在窗外流着黑乎乎的泪水的事实，就像一个虚弱的扫地巨人。

We rounded a corner and there, in front of a sooty red-brick building, stood around a hundred and fifty people, waving placards and chanting, their voices mostly aimed toward a small camera crew.

我们转过一个拐角， 在一栋乌黑的红砖房前，站着大约一百五十人， 他们挥舞着标语牌， 口号，他们的声音主要是对着一小群摄制组的。

The boy had taken nothing in the room; by the mark of his little sooty feet, they could see that he had never been off the hearthrug till the nurse caught hold of him.

男孩在房间里什么也没拿走。 看他那双被熏黑的小脚印， 他们可以看出， 在护士抓住他之前， 他从未离开过炉边地毯。

Often, the evolution of this kind of camouflage is detectable on a shorter timescale too - the populations of dark-coloured peppered moths grew in England, for example, as sooty pollution increased in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution.

通常来说，在较短一段时间内也能观察到伪装的进化发展——例如，19世纪工业革命期间，烟尘污染增加时，英国深色胡椒蛾的数量有所增加。

According to the vulgar idea, the fire in his laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; and so, as might be expected, his visage was getting sooty with the smoke.

按照俗人的说法， 他实验室的火是从下层地区运来的， 是用地狱燃料喂养的；因此，不出所料，他的脸被烟熏乌黑。

The results suggest that the devastation of this very sooty asteroid impact may be due in part to a fluke of geography: the space rock smashed into the Gulf of Mexico, where the sediments were rich in organic matter.

研究结果表明，这次烟尘弥漫的小行星撞击造成的破坏可能部分是由于地理的侥幸: 太空岩石撞进了墨西哥湾，那里的沉积物中富含有机物。

Hepzibah attempted to enliven matters by a fire in the parlor. But the storm demon kept watch above, and, whenever a flame was kindled, drove the smoke back again, choking the chimney's sooty throat with its own breath.

Hepzibah 试图在客厅生火来活跃气氛。但是风暴恶魔一直在面守望，每当点燃火焰时，它就会再次驱散烟雾，用自己的呼吸窒息烟囱被烟熏黑的喉咙。