If you are in a hurry, you can pour water or sand over already cool coal to turn out any remaining fire.

如果你时间比较急，那么你可以倒一些水或者是沙子把火苗扑灭。

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Some Australian beaches are gold like the sun, others red like a fire, and a few so white they almost look like clouds on the ground. Some beaches even contain black sand.

澳大利亚的一些海滩黄如金，一些红如火，一些白如云，一些海滩甚至有黑砂。

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Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

我不要让一位仁慈的主人难过，我就得学着克制些。 而且，有半年时间，这火药像沙土一样地摆在那儿并没引爆，因为没有火凑近来使它爆炸。

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The next day, they realized that the sand and natron under the fire had melted then cooled into glass.

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Two other fires, the Weber fire and the Little Sand fire, were at 90% and 40% containment, respectively, as of Sunday, the governor's office said.

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The walker had to be pulled from the waterlogged mix of mud and sand by Dorset Fire Service on Friday.

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That has Leveaux wanting to go as simple as possible and he is tempted to just cover the stage with sand and then set fire to it.

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