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

• Any older and it would be black and fossilized.
  如果是旧的会发黑变质。
• 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。
• 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。
• This fossilized tree sap* Which we call "amber".
  树液化石又称为琥珀。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。