Don't drop your cigarette ash on the carpet, use an ashtray.

不要把你的烟灰掉在地毯上，用烟灰缸。

A few hours later, his wife found the pages crumpled and covered with cigarette ash in the wastepaper basket.

几个小时后，他的妻子在废纸篓里发现了这些褶皱的、满是烟灰的纸张。

He flicked cigarette ash carefully at the glass-top table.

他在玻璃桌上小心翼翼地拂去烟灰。

Mallinson flicked his cigarette ash with a gesture of forced nonchalance.

马林森用一种强迫的漠不关心的姿势弹了弹烟灰。

The fulfilled guests sat back, sniffed, drank their coffee, laughed, tipped their cigarette ash on the floor, having missed the ashtray by a hair's breadth, gossiped, and refilled their glasses.

酒足饭饱的客人们靠在椅子背上，鼻子吸了吸气，喝着咖啡，大声笑着，朝烟灰缸抖烟灰时就差一点没有抖上，结果让烟灰都落到了地板上；他们漫无边际的闲聊着，把酒杯又重新斟满。

He had a certain disdain for tangible evidence, such as footprints and cigarette ash, and would maintain that, taken by themselves, they would never enable a detective to solve a problem.

他对脚印和香烟灰等有形证据有一定的蔑视， 并坚持认为， 仅凭这些证据， 侦探永远无法解决问题。

And remembering the lunch party at Oxbridge, and the cigarette ash and the Manx cat and Tennyson and Christina Rossetti all in a bunch, it seemed possible that the impediment lay there.

还记得牛剑的午餐会，还有烟灰、马恩岛猫、丁尼生和克里斯蒂娜·罗塞蒂， 这些障碍似乎就在那里。

" But surely the study of finger-prints and footprints, cigarette ash, different kinds of mud, and other clues that comprise the minute observation of details — all these are of vital importance" ?

“但可以肯定的是，对指纹和脚印、烟灰、不同种类的泥土以及构成对细节的细微观察的其他线索的研究——所有这些都是至关重要的”？

Yet you demand that I, Hercule Poirot, should make myself ridiculous by lying down (possibly on damp grass) to study hypothetical footprints, and should scoop up cigarette ash when I do not know one kind from the other.

赫克尔波洛， 应该躺下（可能是在潮湿的草地上）研究假设的脚印， 让自己变得可笑， 并且应该在什么时候铲起烟灰我分不清哪一种。