'as we turned to see flames raging and black smoke billowing into the clear blue sky.

我们转头看去，只见火光冲天，黑烟滚滚，与湛蓝的天空形成鲜明的对比。

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But as he looked around, he couldn't see the plane, the flames or the huge black smoke clouds billowing around him.

可是他朝四周扫了一圈，竟然看不到飞机在哪里，也没看见身边有火焰或浓浓的烟雾腾空而起。

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From the plane, you could see the vast black smoke-cloud that used to be Japan's biggest oil refinery, still burning unstoppably 24 hours after the earthquake hit it.

从飞机上鸟瞰，你可以看到从日本这个曾经最大的炼油厂内冒出的滚滚浓烟，在地震发生后的24小时里厂内的大火一直没有停止过燃烧。

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"I was halfway across the floor, I could see the door, but the air turned black with this thick smoke, " he said.

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Earlier this week I could see a tall black column of smoke coming from a fire that the attacks have started in one of the rebel-held suburbs.

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Huge plumes of thick black smoke were billowing out of them and when I looked at tower 2 you could still see the tail end of the jet hanging out of the building.

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