fossilize

1 Throughout he is a companionable guide, as good at breathing life into the fossilized prose of scientific papers as he is at conjuring the Ordovician reign of the nautiloids.

2 In September 1832, exploring the gray cliffs and low-lying clay bays near Punta Alta, he discovered an astonishing natural cemetery, with fossilized bones of enormous extinct mammals splayed out before him.

3 Animals this small do not fossilize well, which is why this stage of the distant evolutionary past is so little known.

这么小的动物很难形成良好的化石，这就是为什么过去我们对这一阶段的进化过程知之甚少的原因。

4 Almost inevitably, he became the leading authority on coprolites–fossilized feces–and had a table made entirely out of his collection of specimens.

5 This is where they found it, all neatly fossilized.

6 The concentrated greens and burnt umber of its edge-to-edge woods approach a fossilized carbon-black, peppered here and there with flecks of light.

7 The preponderance of fossilized spore plants dating to the swampy Carboniferous, it’s now realized, caused “preservation bias,” meaning accepted theories might be skewed.

8 It had a mammoth’s fossilized footprint and rock candy in the gift shop.

9 Mr. Penone has said that the bronze has the effect of “fossilizing” the trees and prompting reflection on the relationship between man and nature.

10 He hurried along the fossilized wooden ties with accumulating mutinous anger.

11 To get a sense of it, imagine the 66-million-year-old fossilized T. rex tooth, as thick and curved as a banana, bearing down into your flesh with the weight of a midsize U-Haul truck.

12 But in the end, I know it will be worth it because fossilized plants hide within and the next stroke of my hammer might be the one that hits the jackpot.

13 Over time, sediment buried the bones, which fossilized and drifted with the continents to what is now northeastern France.

14 The depictions at the National Portrait Gallery are more than good enough — and the better for being such distinctive, explicitly human departures from a fossilized tradition that, with luck, will never be the same.

15 It’s one of the richest fossil sites on the planet, especially for fossilized fish.

16 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.

17 The children watch engineers use pulleys to lift a fossilized dinosaur femur.

18 It belonged to a fossilized daddy longlegs from Scotland.

19 As a 75-year old white man, Bailey said he was gratified that “the fossilized bedrock of many of Hollywood’s worst abuses are being jack-hammered into oblivion.”

20 While I respect their sense of history and their desire for universal standards, I resist such declarations when they fossilize into something that deadens inspiration.

1 落伍

fogyism superannuate outdate break ranks behind the time drop behind drop back drop straggle

2 变成化石

fossilized

3 固定化

ossification

4 僵化

rigid inflexible unreconstructed ossify calcification ossification mummify petrifaction calcify rigidify stereotype petrify benumb frozen fossil stereotyped case-hardened fossilise stereo

5 石化

petrifaction petrify petrified fossilized

6 古板

square stuffy starchy moldy ceremonious square-toed old-maidish starch

7 使成化石

mineralize fossilise

8 使僵化

stereotype petrify ossify benumb fossilise calcify stereo

9 使落伍

superannuate

10 成化石

mineralize fossilise

11 使陈腐

hack stale hackney banalize

12 陈腐

stock commonplace stale stuffy musty banal trite moldy well-worn threadbare hackneyed hackney cornball worm-eaten twice-told ricky-tick banality hack platitudinarian old tired fossil pedestrian slick beaten prehistoric worn corny worn-out crusted mouldy mildewed fusty bathetic outworn platitudinous prehistorical bromidic hard-worked cobweb platitude bathos rinky-dink obsoletism banalize twice told

13 过时

ricky-tick old vintage antique outdated old-fashioned neolithic antiquated bygone out-of-date belated outmoded unfashionable has-been dowdy unseasonable fusty outworn superannuated worm-eaten moss-grown horse-and-buggy demoded out obsolescent antiquate outdate old hat

14 化石化

fossilation fossilization