sooty(形容词):沾满煤烟的;黑乎乎的;(颜色)像煤烟一样暗黑的。常用来形容被烟尘/煤灰弄脏的表面或带黑灰色的外观。
/ˈsuːti/
The walls were sooty after the fire.
火灾过后,墙壁被熏得黑乎乎的。
In the dim light, his sooty hands left fingerprints on the clean paper, revealing how long he had been working by the furnace.
在昏暗的光线下,他沾满煤灰的手在干净的纸上留下指印,显出他在炉子旁工作了多久。
sooty 来自名词 soot(煤烟、烟灰)加上形容词后缀 -y,表示“充满……的 / 带有……性质的”。因此字面意思就是“带煤烟的、像煤烟一样的”。