Documents slated for destruction were to be burnt to ashes or sunk in weighted crates far from shore.
被指定销毁的文件将被焚烧或放在重箱内沉入离岸较远的水域。
家庭与世界(下)
What was inflammable has been burnt to ashes; what is left is deathless.
易燃物已被烧成灰烬; 剩下的是不死的。
环球慢速英语
They died in great pain - starved of air in rooms under the ground, burned to ashes by the fire, or overcome by the heat.
这些人在极大的痛苦中死去——在地下的房间里耗尽空气,被大火烧成灰,或是被高温吞噬。
牛奶女工的浪漫冒险
" Why—the sparks from thy couch-heap blew over upon my hay-rick, and the rick's burnt to ashes; and all to come out o" my well-squeezed pocket. I'll tell thee what it is, young man. There's no business in thee.