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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If you examine a neighborhood after a large fire, he says, one of the most striking details is the green, unburned vegetation that often remains between the ashen heaps.

他表示，如果你仔细观察遭受大火烧毁的住宅区，就会发现灰烬堆之间仍有完整无缺的绿色植物，情况惹人注意。

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An ashen neckwear is worn with a shirt of any colour.

暗灰色的领带配什么颜色的衬衣都行。

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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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