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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。