His face is as black as coal.

他的脸跟煤炭一样黑。

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Hiss face is as black as coal.

他的脸跟煤炭一样黑。

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What happen, your face is as black as coal.

发生了什么事，你的脸黑得跟煤似的。

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Martin McGuinn, who took over as chief executive two years ago, is a lawyer by training and oblivious to banker's hours: He's gazing over Pittsburgh from his top-floor office by 5:30 every morning, when the three sprawling rivers below are still black as the coal buried deep in the surrounding hills.

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While the US has turned to shale gas, Europeans have once again embraced the black stuff, as the cost of coal has plummeted.

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Located next to the convention center, the stadium would have doubled the mass and length of the huge bunker against the river already established by that "lump of black coal" -- as essayist Phillip Lopate described its dark bulk in his literary trip around the edges of Manhattan -- cutting off views and access with nearly a mile of hulking wall.

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