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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are some excellently preserved fossilized tree stumps.
  有一些保存完好的树桩化石。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。