They listened ashen-faced to the news.

他们听着消息时面如死灰。

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The survivors were ashen-faced and visibly shaken.

幸存者们脸色苍白颤颤发抖。

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She laughed and coughed, and the husband ran from the room ashen-faced, as if he’d seen a fulminating witch, a dead woman speaking, some kind of horror-flick apparition.

她边笑边咳嗽，丈夫脸色苍白从房间里跑出来，好像他见到了一个喜好怒斥人的巫婆，一个死亡女人的讲话，某种恐怖片里的幽灵似的。

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But we were there when the editor, ashen-faced, took a phone call from her that was obviously a dressing down.

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Thousands turned out for the cremation, many of them ashen-faced young garment workers for whom the actress was an unattainable role model.

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Mancini, in his trademark blue and white cashmere scarf, looked ashen-faced.

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