fossilized

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用fossilise


1. V-ERG (使)成为化石;石化
   If the remains of an animal or plant fossilize or are fossilized, they become hard and form fossils, instead of decaying completely.
   1. The most important parts, the flowers, rarely fossilise...
      最重要的部分，即花朵，很少成为化石。
   2. The survival of the proteins depends on the way in which bones are fossilised.
      蛋白质是否存留取决于骨头被石化的方式。
   3. ...fossilized dinosaur bones.
      恐龙骨骼化石
2. V-ERG (使)僵化;(使)陈旧
   If you say that ideas, attitudes, or ways of behaving have fossilized or have been fossilized, you are criticizing the fact that they are fixed and unlikely to change, in spite of changing situations or circumstances.
   1. What they seem to want to do in fact is fossilize the particular environment in which people live and work...
      他们似乎想要做的实际上就是让人们生活和工作的环境固定不变。
   2. Needs change while policies fossilize.
      需要发生改变，但是政策僵化不变。

1. After decades of fossilized, state-dominated economies, the Arab spring now needs an economic revolution.
   阿拉伯之春地区经过数十年僵化的、国家主导的经济体制，如今同样需要一场经济革命。
2. The ecology of the sea and all water-life is of great concern to Sam, as is the question of what will be left to become fossilized from the age we live in.
   对于山姆来说，海洋生态和所有的水生物都是重要的，例如山姆会担心在我们生活的时代当中会留给后世怎样的化石。
3. The preliminary analysis has turned up fossilized insect eggs, left by ancient bugs that may have fed on the decomposing corpse.
   先前的分析发现了已成为化石的虫卵，可能是由以腐尸为食的古代昆虫留下的。
4. Archaeological data are all changes in the material world resulting from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results of human behavior.
   考古学的资料就是人类行为所造成的物质变化。更简洁地说，是石化了的人类行为。
5. The Piltdown Man is a famous hoax in which pieces of a skull and jawbone found in1912 were believed to be the fossilized remains of an early form of human being.
   皮尔当人是次有名的骗局，多块头骨和颚骨于1912年被发现，并被认为是早期人类化石的遗骸。
6. Fossilized bones are essentially solid lumps of rock, which means that mounting them into a skeleton is an enormous challenge.
   骨化石基本上都是坚硬的岩石块，这意味着把它们组装成一具完整的骨架是巨大的挑战。
7. He cites places such as northeastern China's Liaoning province as having some particularly good instances of preserved fossils, adding that such fossilized feather discoveries have helped scientists make key breakthroughs in their understanding of the origin of both feathers and birds.
   他说，中国东北辽宁省等地拥有一些特别不错的保存完好的化石，而且这类化石羽毛的发现已经帮助科学家在理解羽毛及鸟类起源方面取得了关键性的突破。
8. Photo Gallery: Jurassic Period Paleontologists in China's Henan Basin discovered this nest of fossilized eggs laid by the Jurassic duck-billed herbivore Hadrosaurus.
   侏罗纪时代图片集。古生物学家在中国河南省盆地发现了这窝蛋化石所奠定的侏罗系（嘴巴）象鸭的食草动物鸭嘴龙。
9. The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone.
   这个小动物变成化石后并嵌入在石灰石里。
10. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized.
    微小纤细的骨骼通常在石化前就被食腐肉的动物拆散了，或者被风化作用破坏掉了。
11. Analysis of fossilized pollen would give clues to the vegetation that existed.
    分析花粉化石会给当时存在的植物提供线索。
12. The study of fossilized, or preserved, remnants of plant and animal life.
    研究己成化石的植物和动物的遗体及其生活遗迹的科学。
13. Amber is a very light stone made from the fossilized resin of trees.
    琥珀是一种很轻的石头从树脂的树木化石。
14. Duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin.
    在加拿大发现其带有皮肤的干尸化石的鸭嘴龙。
15. When NASA discovered what may be fossilized bacteria in a meteorite believed to be of martian origin.
    美国国家航空太空总署在一颗陨石中发现了可能是变成了化石的细菌，他们相信这是火星人的起源。
16. Aspects of pronunciation, vocabulary usage, and grammar may become fixed or fossilized in second or foreign language learning.
    方音、词汇用法和语法的各个方面在第二语言或外语学习中会成为固定或僵化。
17. In other words, it is a fossilized history, with melodious music, circling around people's memories.
    在某种程度上，它就是凝固了的历史，和着悠扬的音乐，回旋在人们的记忆里；
18. And distinctive layered patterns in the fossilized sediments indicated that the water that deposited them was no longer flowing north; instead it flowed eastward.
    而化石沉积物中特有的层状构造，则显示沉积泥沙的水流不再往北，而改向东流。
19. There are some excellently preserved fossilized tree stumps.
    有一些保存完好的树桩化石。
20. This fossilized tree sap* Which we call "amber".
    树液化石又称为琥珀。
21. Unfortunately, an organization structure can get fossilized over time and develop into a highly bureaucratic institution.
    不幸的是一个机构的结构，会随着时间推移而僵化，最后滋生出官僚主义。
22. Any older and it would be black and fossilized.
    如果是旧的会发黑变质。
23. Learner's inter-language fossilized some way short of target language competence while the internalized rule system contained rules that are different from those of the target language system.
    学习者的语际语在未到达目的语言能力时，就发生了僵化，此时其内在化的规则体系与目的语语言体系所包含的规则不尽相同。
24. The discovery was made by a team of scientists from China and the UK, who used electron microscopy technology to analyze membranes in fossilized dinosaurs to determine what color the feathers were.
    这个发现是由一队来自中国和英国的科学家联手做出的。他们用电子显微镜分析恐龙化石的细胞膜，进而判断恐龙的羽毛颜色。
25. Obsolete fossilized ways; an ossified bureaucratic system.
    陈腐、僵化的方式；顽固守旧的官僚机构。
26. SEOUL ( AFP)-The world's oldest fossilized webbed footprints of birds, believed to be110 million years old, have been found on a South Korean island.
    南韩科学家们最近在该国一个岛屿上找到了世界上最为古老的蹼状鸟类足迹化石，据悉这些化石距今已有1.1亿年之久。
27. They owe their color to chalk formed from the fossilized skeletons of sea creatures.
    由海洋生物骨骼化石形成的石灰石而得名。
28. Yet, I do not believe that your English is "fossilized".
    但是，我认为你的英语不是化石化了。
29. Yet despite the new grandeur and skill brought to ballet during the Imperial Russian age, it was also a time when, after the romantic liberation, ballet became fossilized.
    尽管在帝俄时代芭蕾舞增加广新的宏伟气氛和技巧，但在那个时代去掉浪漫色彩之后，芭蕾变得僵化了。

adj

1. set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs
   1. obsolete fossilized ways
   2. an ossified bureaucratic system

   Synonym:    fossilisedossified