ash
noun /æʃ/
/æʃ/
Idioms 灰;灰烬 - cigarette ash
香烟灰 - black volcanic ash
黑色火山灰 - Ash from the volcano fell over a wide area.
火山灰散落的范围非常广。 - She flicked ash out of the window carelessly.
她不小心把烟灰弹到了窗外。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- glowing
- hot
- red-hot
- …
- cloud
- flick
- tap
- reduce something to
- …
- fall
- rise from the ashes
- cigarette ash
- ashes[plural] what is left after something has been destroyed by burning
灰烬;废墟 - The town was reduced to ashes in the fighting.
这座城镇在战斗中化为灰烬。 - the glowing ashes of the campfire
营火剩下的灼热余烬 - The fire had died to cold ashes.
火早已熄灭,留下一堆冷灰。 - (figurative) The party had risen, like a phoenix, from the ashes of electoral disaster.
该党像长生鸟一样,从选举惨败的灰烬中重新崛起。 - She had seen all her dreams turn to ashes.
她看到自己所有的梦想都化为灰烬。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- glowing
- hot
- red-hot
- …
- cloud
- flick
- tap
- reduce something to
- …
- fall
- rise from the ashes
- The town was reduced to ashes in the fighting.
- ashes[plural] the powder that is left after a dead person’s body has been cremated (= burned)
骨灰 - She wanted her ashes to be scattered at sea.
她希望自己的骨灰撒向大海。
WordfinderTopics Life stagesc2- ashes
- cemetery
- coffin
- cremation
- die
- funeral
- grave
- hearse
- morgue
- mourn
Collocations Dictionaryverb + ashes- scatter
- spread
- bury
- …
- She wanted her ashes to be scattered at sea.
- enlarge image[countable, uncountable](also ash tree)a forest tree with grey bark
梣;白蜡树 Topics Plants and treesc2 - [uncountable] the hard pale wood of the ash tree
梣木 - (specialist) the letter æ, used in Old English, and as a phonetic symbol to represent the vowel sound in cat
* æ(古英语的一个字母,也为音标,表示如 cat 一词中的元音)
词源senses 1 to 3 Old English æsce, aexe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch as and German Asche.senses 4 to 5 Old English æsc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch es and German Esche.
Idioms
wear, put on, etc. sackcloth and ashes
- to behave in a way that shows that you are sorry for something that you have done
忏悔;悔恨;后悔