The boiler was too full of water, and black sooty mud soon covered the whole engine and the young engineer.

由于锅炉里水装，黑色煤泥很快就覆盖了发动机和年轻工程师。

In the past, the material of choice has been carbon black, a sooty substance made by the incomplete combustion of petroleum products.

过去，备选材料为碳黑，这是一种石油产品不完全燃烧后形成黑色物质。

With food so hard to come by in the open ocean, newly hatched sooty tern chicks are easy pickings for the larger frigate birds.

在海洋中寻找食物是如此困难，刚出壳乌燕鸥，对大一些军舰鸟来说，就是垂手食物。

Small, sooty chunks were piled into tubs and wheeled out, then loaded onto coal trucks that hurtled down the country roads, sprinkling a layer of ash everywhere.

又小又黑煤块被装进桶里，用滑轮运出去，然后装上运煤卡车，卡车奔驰在乡间道路上，所到之处，无不给周围蒙上一层煤灰。

The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty, so that I thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little shrine or chapel for his Congo idol.

里面烟囱石壁和砖头本来全都熏漆黑, 因此, 我心里想, 这只壁炉做他刚果偶像或者小教堂, 倒真是十分适宜。

The brilliant lights and sooty shades which struggled upon the skin and clothes of the persons standing round caused their lineaments and general contours to be drawn with Dureresque vigour and dash.

明亮火光和乌黑阴影，竞相投射在四周人群脸上和衣服上，使他们面部和身形，都像丢勒用浓墨重彩勾勒出来一样。

The results suggest that the devastation of this very sooty asteroid impact may be due in part to a fluke of geography: the space rock smashed into the Gulf of Mexico, where the sediments were rich in organic matter.

研究结果表明，这次烟尘弥漫小行星撞击造成破坏能部分是由于地理上侥幸: 空岩石撞进了墨西哥湾，那里沉积物中富含有机物。