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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• This fossilized tree sap* Which we call "amber".
  树液化石又称为琥珀。
• 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。
• 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。