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

• Fossilized bones are essentially solid lumps of rock, which means that mounting them into a skeleton is an enormous challenge.
  骨化石基本上都是坚硬的岩石块，这意味着把它们组装成一具完整的骨架是巨大的挑战。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Aspects of pronunciation, vocabulary usage, and grammar may become fixed or fossilized in second or foreign language learning.
  方音、词汇用法和语法的各个方面在第二语言或外语学习中会成为固定或僵化。
• 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。