ashy

基本解釋

After an hour of waiting outside, the house fell apart and collapsed, looking like a dark, ashy ruin.
在外名等了一個小時，那宮殿坍塌了，成了廢墟，顏色和灰一樣。
It was March, a bright cold day, and the ashy remains of her night’s fire gave off a surprising sullen heat, for which she was not ungrateful.
那是三月里明亮寒冷的一天，晚上壁爐未盡的余火散發(fā)出讓人吃驚卻昏昏沉沉的熱氣，那是她喜歡的余熱。
Everything had been destroyed, Yankee-style, and the only crops that seemed to thrive in the ashy, salty soil were some pepper plants... from the Mexican state of Tabasco.
所有的東西包括生活方式都被破壞了。在這片灰色鹽堿地上唯一留下的是一種來自墨西哥塔巴斯科州的胡椒作物。

But if you heat up the alloy until it liquefies--Branagan's powder must be heated to 1, 200 degrees Celsius and applied with a thermal spray gun--it turns into an ashy powder as it cools, a metallic glass with "frustrated" molecules, as Branagan calls them, anxious to form a lattice, but confined by their inability to move.
FORBES: Magazine Article

consisting of or like ash (= the soft grey or black powder that is left after a substance has burned)
light grey in colour
(of skin) feeling dry, and having areas of white on it