She laughed and coughed, and the husband ran from the room with an ashen face, as if he'd seen a fulminating witch, 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，好像他见到了一个暴怒的巫婆，像是某种恐怖片里的幽灵似的。

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But if a major volcanic eruption has polluted the stratosphere with thin haze, the eclipse will be dark red, ashen gray, or blood-black.

但如果发生大型火山喷发，导致同温层掺杂有薄云，那么月食就会变成暗红色、灰暗色或者血黑色。

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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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There can be no better metaphor for depression than Frodo walking through ashen heaps carrying a heavy burden on an apparently hopeless quest.

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My own little patch of earth is as Dogpatch comparatively speaking, but like le Roi Soleil, I went ashen when presented with a bill for 60 bags of cedar nuggets.

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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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