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

• 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。
• They owe their color to chalk formed from the fossilized skeletons of sea creatures.
  由海洋生物骨骼化石形成的石灰石而得名。
• 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。
• Unfortunately, an organization structure can get fossilized over time and develop into a highly bureaucratic institution.
  不幸的是一个机构的结构，会随着时间推移而僵化，最后滋生出官僚主义。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Any older and it would be black and fossilized.
  如果是旧的会发黑变质。
• 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。
• 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；