- The powdery black stuff that's sometimes created when fuel burns is called soot. A chimney sweep's job is to clean all the soot and ash from inside a chimney.
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- n. 煤烟，烟灰
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1. The chimney is almost choked up with soot.
烟囱几乎被烟垢堵住了。
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2. The inside of a chimney soon gets covered in soot.
烟囱里面很快就覆盖了一层煤烟。
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3. Leaves black soot all over, he says.
他说，到处都是黑烟。
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4. Voters do not like breathing soot.
选民不喜欢吸入烟尘。
- soot (n.) Old English sot "soot," from Proto-Germanic *sotam "soot" (source also of Old Norse sot, Old Dutch soet, North Frisian sutt), literally "what settles," from PIE *sodo- (source also of Old Church Slavonic sažda, Lithuanian suodžiai, Old Irish suide, Breton huzel "soot"), suffixed form of root *sed- (1) "to sit."
soot / sʊt ; NAmE sʊt / noun [uncountable ] black powder that is produced when wood, coal, etc. is burnt 煤烟子；油烟 ☞see also sooty soot soots sooted sooting soot / sʊt ; NAmE sʊt /
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