fossil: [17] Etymologically, a fossil is something ‘dug’ out of the ground. It comes via French fossile from Latin fossilis ‘dug up’, a derivative of the verb fodere ‘dig’. The English adjective originally meant virtually the same as Latin fossilis (‘Seven unmixt fossil Metals are forecited’, Robert Vilvain, Epitome of Essais 1654), and this sense survives in the present-day expression fossil fuel, but the word’s main modern connotation ‘excavated relic of a former life-form’ had begun to emerge by the mid 17th century.
fossil (n.)
1610s, "any thing dug up;" 1650s (adj.) "obtained by digging" (of coal, salt, etc.), from French fossile (16c.), from Latin fossilis "dug up," from fossus, past participle of fodere "to dig," from PIE root *bhedh- "to dig, pierce."
Restricted noun sense of "geological remains of a plant or animal" is from 1736 (the adjective in the sense "pertaining to fossils" is from 1660s); slang meaning "old person" first recorded 1859. Fossil fuel (1833) preserves the earlier, broader sense.
fossil 英文释义
1. someone whose style is out of fashion
2. the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
fossil 双语例句
1. The fossil fuels (coal and oil) are finite resources.
化石燃料（如煤和石油）属于有限资源。
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2. Peter Forey is curator of fossil fishes at the Natural History Museum.
彼得·福雷是自然历史博物馆鱼类化石展厅的负责人。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.
电力工业消耗大量的矿物燃料。
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4. At this distance of time it is difficult to date the fossil.
时间隔得这么久了,很难确定这化石的年代.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. The man is a fossil.
那人是个老顽固.
来自《简明英汉词典》
fossil 实用场景例句
fossils over two million years old
两百多万年的化石
牛津词典
This dependency between fossil and living types is well illustrated when we deal with extinct groups.
化石与现存类型之间的这种依赖关系在我们研究绝灭类群时是十分明显的.
辞典例句
At this distance of time it is difficult to date the fossil.
时间隔得这么久了,很难确定这化石的年代.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
Intergovernmental panel on climate change puts most of the blame on the burning of fossil fuels.
政府间的座谈小组把气候变迁的主要原因归咎于燃烧矿石燃料.
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The fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas, are rapidly diminishing in supply as consumption increases.
矿物燃料, 煤 、 石油和天然气, 由于消费的增加而在快速的递减着.
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Increasing problems of all kinds with fossil fuel power plants turning power and utility companiesmoreandmore tOtheuseOfnuclearpoweredelectricgeneratingplants.
矿物燃料发电厂所产生的问题日益增多,这就促使电力公司和公用事业公司越来越倾向于采用核动力发电厂.
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The U.S. meanwhile sits on largely untapped fossil fuel resources, including coal, natural gas and oil.
而美国则拥有很大程度上尚未开发的化石燃料资源, 包括煤, 天然气和石油.
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This fossil is the skull of a primitive person.
这块化石是古人类的头盖骨.
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By conserving water and fossil fuels, we will be helping to protect the wildlife around ourselves.
以节约用水、矿物燃料, 我们将协助保护野生动物的周围.
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If nuclear power superseded fossil power, we would run out of uranium in 4 years.
如果我们以核能取代所有化石能源, 铀将在4年内耗尽.
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The toxins associated with Dinosaur remains are known as fossil fuels in present time.
与恐龙残骸相关的毒素就是今天所知的化石燃料.
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Paleontology the study of extinct organisms, including their fossil remains, and impressions left by them.
古生物学:指对已经灭绝生物进行研究的学科, 包括研究它们的化石残骸以及留下的痕迹.
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Nanyang tens of thousands of pieces of dinosaur egg fossil discovery shocked the world.
数万枚南阳恐龙蛋化石群的发现震惊世界.
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This ability to decentralize solar energy is something that fossil fuel burning cannot match.
这个分散太阳能的能力是传统的燃料燃烧不能比得上的.
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They had found a fossil man there.
他们在那儿发现了一个化石人.
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But, the dialect is an ancient social intercourse information to leave behind, is a phonetic fossil.
但是, 方言是古代交际信息的遗留, 是语言的化石.
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The answers may lie in a close reexamination of the fossil evidence.
通过对化石证据的仔细反复的研究是可以得出答案的.
辞典例句
Too much ADB money is still channeled toward fossil fuel energy.
亚银有太多经费投注在石化能源业.
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But he cannot see how he could run his farm without cheap fossil fuels.
但是莱特先生无法想象没有了便宜的化石燃料还怎么经营自己农场.
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Can you date the fossil exactly?
你能确定这化石的确切年代 吗 ?
辞典例句
With the exhaustion of fossil resources the energy economy will change chemical to an electrical base.
用尽的矿物资源,能源经济将改变从化学到电力基地.
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But it also leads to a fossil fuel.
实际上,还有一种化石燃料.
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The evaluation results indicate and economic benefits of each fossil unit.
评价结果能够反映各火力发电机组的经济效益.
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The man is a fossil.
那人是个老顽固.
《简明英汉词典》
Students grow organic food and use as little fossil fuels and chemicals as possible.
学生种植有机食物并尽可能少的利用矿物燃料和化学药品.
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The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.
电力工业消耗大量的矿物燃料。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
The fossil fuels (coal and oil) are finite resources.
化石燃料（如煤和石油）属于有限资源。
柯林斯例句
Peter Forey is curator of fossil fishes at the Natural History Museum.
彼得·福雷是自然历史博物馆鱼类化石展厅的负责人。
柯林斯例句
Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.
