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fossilize

英['fɒsəlaɪz] 美['fɑːsəlaɪz]
  • vt. 使成化石;使陈腐
  • vi. 变成化石;变陈腐;固定化
fossilization fossilized fossilized fossilizing fossilizes
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详细释义

Verb:
  1. convert to a fossil;

    "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone"

  2. become mentally inflexible

双语例句

1. Needs change while policies fossilize.
需要发生改变,但是政策僵化不变。

来自柯林斯例句

2. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

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