fossilized

英 [ˈfɒsəlaɪzd]

美 [ˈfɑːsəlaɪzd]

v.  (使)变成化石，石化; (使人或物)僵化
fossilize的过去分词和过去式

过去式：fossilized　过去分词：fossilized　

TOEFL

BNC.40140 / COCA.22480

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用fossilise


• V-ERG (使)成为化石;石化
  If the remains of an animal or plantfossilizeorare 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
• V-ERG (使)僵化;(使)陈旧
  If you say that ideas, attitudes, or ways of behavinghave fossilizedorhave 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。

英英释义

adj

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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Obsolete fossilized ways; an ossified bureaucratic system.
  陈腐、僵化的方式；顽固守旧的官僚机构。
• 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。