A cinder is a very small hard bit left when wood, coal, or similar fuel has burned. It is not the fine grey powder we call ash, and it is not always still on fire — though a cinder can stay hot and orange for a while.

A cinder煤渣is a very small hard bit是一種很小、很硬的碎塊，left when wood, coal, or similar fuel has burned是木頭、煤炭，或類似燃料燒完後留下的。It它is not the fine grey powder we call ash不是我們說的那種細灰，and it is not always still on fire而且不一定還在燃燒——though a cinder can stay hot and orange for a while不過煤渣可能還會維持橙紅、發熱一陣子。

You find cinders in a grate, a barbecue, a burnt-out fire. People also say burnt to a cinder when food is cooked until it is black.

You你find cinders in a grate, a barbecue, a burnt-out fire會在壁爐、烤肉架，或燒盡的火堆裡找到煤渣。People人們also say burnt to a cinder也會說burnt to a cinderwhen food is cooked until it is black用來形容食物煮到燒黑。

The word appears in older compounds too: a cinder track is a rough running track with a burnt surface; Americans say cinder block for a grey building block (British English more often says breeze block).

The word這個字appears in older compounds too也出現在一些比較舊的複合詞裡：a cinder track像cinder trackis a rough running track with a burnt surface是一種表面粗糙、帶著燒焦質感的跑道；Americans美國人say cinder block for a grey building block把灰色的建築磚塊叫做cinder block，British English more often says breeze block英式英文則比較常說breeze block。

English Cinderella is named from this: the girl who sat among the dirty burnt bits of the fire. The English word itself is old and Germanic; the fairy tale did not give us cinder — cinder helped give us the English name of the girl.

English Cinderella英文的Cinderella（灰姑娘）is named from this就是從這個字來的：the girl who sat among the dirty burnt bits of the fire指那個坐在髒污燒過的灰燼碎塊之間的女孩。The English word itself這個英文字本身is old and Germanic是古老的日耳曼語源的字；the fairy tale童話故事did not give us cinder並不是給了我們cinder這個字——cinder而是cinder這個字helped give us the English name of the girl幫忙造出了這個女孩的英文名字。