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ashBrE /æʃ/NAmE /æʃ/ noun [U] the grey or black powder that is left after sth, especially tobacco, wood or coal, has burnt 灰；灰烬◆cigarette ash 香烟灰◆black volcanic ash 黑色火山灰ashes [pl.] what is left after sth 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◆(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。ashes [pl.] 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。 ashes, cemetery, coffin, cremation, die, funeral, grave1, hearse, morgue, mourn [C, U] (also ˈash tree) a forest tree with grey bark 梣；白蜡树 ➡ see also mountain ash [U] 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） ●wear, put on, etc. ˌsackcloth and ˈashesto behave in a way that shows that you are sorry for sth that you have done 忏悔；悔恨；后悔 |
