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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Obsolete fossilized ways; an ossified bureaucratic system.
  陈腐、僵化的方式；顽固守旧的官僚机构。
• 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。
• 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；
• Any older and it would be black and fossilized.
  如果是旧的会发黑变质。