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

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