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[verb] soot sth
soot 作及物动词，表示“用煤烟熏黑”，主语通常是烟或火。
The smoke slowly sooted the white walls.
烟雾慢慢把白墙熏黑了。
煤烟；烟灰
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
煤烟；烟灰
a black colloidal substance made mainly of amorphous carbon, used in making pigments and ink
The smoke slowly sooted the white walls.
烟雾慢慢把白墙熏黑了。
煤、油等不完全燃烧产生的无定形碳和焦油的细小黑色或暗棕色颗粒。
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
一种主要由无定形碳组成的黑色胶体物质,用于制造颜料和墨水
a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
Cleaning the chimney left black soot all over the kitchen floor.
打扫烟囱让厨房地板上到处都是黑色的煤烟。
The old factory's walls were stained with soot from years of coal smoke.
老工厂的墙壁被多年煤烟熏得污迹斑斑。
She wiped the soot from her face after lighting the fire.
她生完火后擦去脸上的煤烟。
soot 作及物动词，表示“用煤烟熏黑”，主语通常是烟或火。
The smoke slowly sooted the white walls.
烟雾慢慢把白墙熏黑了。
soot 通常作不可数名词，常接 from 引出来源。
Soot from the candle settled on the table.
蜡烛的烟灰落在了桌子上。
Not this
There is a soot on the windowsill.
Use this
There is soot on the windowsill.
soot 在这里是不可数名词，指煤烟物质，不能加不定冠词 a，应该直接用零冠词。
Not this
The wall is soot after the fire.
Use this
The wall is sooty after the fire.
soot 是名词或动词，不表示状态；要表示“布满煤烟的”应用形容词 sooty。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
沾满煤烟
His hands were covered in soot after cleaning the chimney.
打扫完烟囱后，他的手上沾满了煤烟。
煤烟和烟雾
The old factory filled the air with soot and smoke.
老工厂使空气中充满煤烟和烟雾。
被煤烟熏黑
The walls were black with soot from years of candles.
墙壁因多年点蜡烛而被煤烟熏黑。
烟囱灰
Chimney soot can be a fire hazard if it builds up.
烟囱灰如果堆积起来可能成为火灾隐患。
一层煤烟
A layer of soot covered every surface in the kitchen.
一层煤烟覆盖了厨房的每个表面。
像煤烟一样黑；乌黑
After cleaning the old fireplace, my hands were as black as soot.
清理旧壁炉后，我的双手像煤烟一样黑。
于是我清扫你们的烟囱，在煤烟里入睡。
From William Blake's poem 'The Chimney Sweeper' (1789), where a child chimney sweep speaks of his grim life.
出自威廉·布莱克的诗《扫烟囱的孩子》（1789年），小扫烟囱工讲述自己悲惨的生活。
我满身煤灰，从头顶到鞋底，可没有什么比扫烟囱人的忧伤更甜蜜。
From the song 'Chim Chim Cher-ee' in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, sung by the chimney sweep Bert.
出自1964年电影《欢乐满人间》中扫烟囱工人伯特演唱的歌曲《Chim Chim Cher-ee》。
发短 /ʊ/ 音 (如 good, book)
Use soot naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把 soot 想成 smoke 与 foot 的合体：烟囱冒烟，脚边落了一层黑黑的煤烟。
语域：neutral 常见场景：cleaning a chimney or fireplace、stains from smoke, candles, or exhaust、industrial combustion and air pollution soot 通常作名词，指燃烧产生的黑色粉末，多用于描述壁炉、烟囱、蜡烛或工业烟尘等场景；作动词表示“用煤烟熏黑”时较少见。
Words that rhyme with soot /sʊt/: foot /fʊt/ and put /pʊt/. Note that soot is spelled with -oot but has the short vowel /ʊ/, so lookalikes with -oot such as boot /buːt/, hoot /huːt/, and shoot /ʃuːt/ do not rhyme; they have the long vowel /uː/. The word book /bʊk/ shares the same vowel sound /ʊ/ but ends in /k/, so it is not a rhyme either.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.