The Chinese peasant now detours his team of water buffalo around the blackened, twisted hulls of two Lilies and four Oscars as he prepares the paddy fields for the next rice planting.

中国农民牵着水牛一队队绕过被战火烧焦变形的奥斯卡（美国人为日本陆军航空队“隼”二型战斗机取的名字。）和野蔷薇来到农田，又开始了为来年的收成进行的忙碌。

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We beat it up. We want it hot,we want it now, we want it deep fried, we want it blackened, we want it burnt.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Now, blackened petrified acacias rise hauntingly from the hard vlei floor.

CNN: Romancing the dune in Namibia

Hemmed in now by its City of London neighbors and blackened by traffic exhaust, it can almost vanish against its surroundings in the gray afternoon light.

WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward