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

• There are some excellently preserved fossilized tree stumps.
  有一些保存完好的树桩化石。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Obsolete fossilized ways; an ossified bureaucratic system.
  陈腐、僵化的方式；顽固守旧的官僚机构。
• Any older and it would be black and fossilized.
  如果是旧的会发黑变质。
• 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。