fossil
美 [ˈfɑs(ə)l] 
英 [ˈfɒs(ə)l]
- n.化石；老人；老古董
- adj.从地下发掘出来的；化石的；属于旧时代的；陈腐的
- 网络老顽固；动物化石；动物的化石
词形变化
复数：fossils 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 化石the remains of an animal or a plant which have become hard and turned into rock |
| fossils over two million years old 两百多万年的化石 |
2. |
老人；（尤指）老顽固，老古董an old person, especially one who is unable to accept new ideas or adapt to changes |
英汉解释
adj. | |
n. | 2. 老顽固,守旧者;习语中保存的旧词(如 to and fro 中的 fro) |
英英解释
例句
Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling.
科学家在一块6700万年的化石中发现了一条蛇盘绕在恐龙蛋和一只幼仔周围。
Fossil fuels are, in terms of the energy they store, remarkably inexpensive to get out of the ground and sell.
由于化石燃料储存能源的方式，使其开采和出售都非常便宜。
Their language is regarded as something of a linguistic "fossil" and one of the oldest and most "pure" Inuit dialects.
Inughuit人的语言被尊为语言“化石”，是最古老、最纯正的因纽特方言之一。
"In the end, if they use more renewables domestically, they can export more" fossil fuels, she said. "It's sort of a no-brainer. "
最后，如果他们在国内使用更多的可再生资源，他们就可以出口更多的化石燃料，这是显而易见的事实。
It's easy to call global warming junk science as long as you are the one benefiting from burning fossil fuels to extract their energy.
如果你是烧别人的石油的受益者，你就称称全球变暖是科技进步表现。
But because much of this industry still relies on subsidies to be competitive with fossil fuels, it is still not a true free market.
但由于这个行业在很大程度上仍然依赖津贴去和化石燃料竞争，因此仍然不是一个真正的自由市场。
He said that the climate talks due to conclude in Copenhagen in December were fundamental to whether the world moved away from fossil fuels.
他指出即将于12月在哥本哈根达成协议的气候大会对于是否在世界范围内离开化石能源至关重要。
Human beings need to make far more decisions like this: to leave fossil fuels in the ground, and to leave rainforests standing.
人类需要做出更多此类决定：不去开采地层下面的化石燃料，让雨林自然生长。
Climate scientist can estimate how much of the remaining fossil fuels we can safely burn.
气候科学家可以测量我们还可以安全地燃烧多少剩余的石化燃料。
"That's a nice dinosaur, " she said as she played in the fossil pit at the end of the trail.
“那只恐龙很和善，”她一边在路径终点处的化石坑里玩，一边说道。
But it is definitely good news to see at least one Christmas tree lot switching over from fossil fuels to solar power.
但无论如何，有一批圣诞树放弃了矿物燃料转而使用太阳能这种清洁能源都是毋庸置疑的好消息。
In other words, having only one type of fossil is often not enough to draw definitive conclusions about an ancient species' behavior.
换句话说，要对某种古代物种的行为得出明确的结论，只有一种类型的的化石是远远不够的。
The panda is often called a living fossil, having inhabited the planet since the days of the saber-toothed tiger.
熊猫常被称作活化石，其栖息足迹可追溯到剑齿虎的时代。
But the nuclear industry needs to do more than build a few plants a year to be a true low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.
但是，要想成为真正的低碳的化石能源替代品，核能行业必须在建造核电站以外做更多的工作。
This piece of geography, now just a fossil lake bed, is known as glacial lake Missoula.
这一片地形，现在只是湖泊化石沉积矿，被称为冰川湖密苏拉。
Instead of being powered by the sun, then, some young sharks seem to run on fossil fuel.
除了依赖阳光来获得能量以外，一些幼小的鲨鱼似乎依存于矿物燃料。
The object, he said, was not to be an alternative for fossil fuels, but "to become a viable replacement. "
目标不是要成为化石燃料的替代，而是“要成为一个可行的替代品。”
If it falls into the right category of subsidies for fossil fuels, we would have to look at our own programmes as well as others.
如果它恰好被划分到了燃料补贴的类别，我们将需要研究一下我们自己及其它国家的计划。
The next big piece of a global-warming-control plan involves learning to be more efficient with the fossil fuels we continue to burn.
控制全球气候变暖方案的另一个大的方面涉及到如何更有效的利用我们仍在使用的化石燃料。
The very gas we are busy pumping into the air at the rate of 30bn tonnes a year, mostly by burning fossil fuels.
就是我们主要通过燃烧矿物燃料，忙着以每年三百亿吨的速度排入空气的那种气体。
That specimen consists of a skull and the fossil impression of the brain of a 6-year-old child who died perhaps 2 million years ago.
这个标本是一个大约死于200万年前的6岁儿童的头骨和脑模化石。
Simple organisms such as bacteria and alga have been found fossil in rocks more than 3000 m. y. old.
简单的生物，如细菌和藻类，它们的化石已在三十多亿年的岩石中发现。
You are flogging a dead horse trying to persuade him to accept the new concepts-he is absolutely an old fossil.
想劝他接受新思想根本不可能，他决对是个老顽固。
OCO measurements could give us an indication of how much longer we can burn fossil fuels at the rate that we're burning them now.
观测卫星（OCO）的测量数据可以给我们一个指标，以现在我们燃烧石化燃料的速度还能有多久。
the oil field, with its derrick rising from the soil like a shunt to coax the earth's fossil fuel to the surface.
油田和起重机从土壤上升起，就像分流把地球的化石燃料吸出地面。
One way of trying to answer it is to look in the fossil record for evidence about what modern humanity's closest relatives could do.
一个解决它的途径就是从化石记录中寻找证据——现代人的近亲到底能做什么？
The data used for China is to emphasize this vital fossil energy component's environmental impact upon a country so thus to the world.
本文用于中国的数据是要强调使用矿物能源的中国对于自身及世界所造成的环境影响。
Instead of finding a "living fossil" identical to an ancient beast, they have found a real fossil identical to a modern one.
他们不是找到了一个与古兽相同的“活化石”，而是找到了一个跟现代兽类相同的真正化石。
In the case of this latest discovery, a fossil attributed to a dinosaur was determined to be a bird.
在最新的发现案例中，一个先前被归类为恐龙的化石被鉴定为属于鸟类。
For the first time, we now have a complete fossil record of how much material such a newborn black hole can eat.
现在，我们第一次拥有一个完整的关于像如此新诞生的黑洞能吞噬多少物质的化石记录。
A couple of days later near the same spot, fossil hunter Alemayehu Asfaw found a piece of a child's jaw with a first molar tooth.
几天以后，在该目击地的附近，化石猎手阿勒迈耶胡·阿斯范（AlemayehuAsfaw）有又发现了一片带有第一臼齿的儿童颌骨化石。
And as you go across there you will see that we've got a few tens of years, and perhaps 100 years of fossil fuels left.
这么看过去，你就会发现我们只剩下几十年的，多说100年的化石燃料。
The giant panda is called living fossil and is one of the world most precious endangered animals.
大熊猫是世界上最珍贵的濒危动物之一，被称为活化石。
The only way of ensuring that does not happen is to price fossil fuels to cover the cost of the environmental damage they do.
唯一可以确保页岩开采不受灭门之灾的方法是让化石燃料为其导致的环境污染买单。
If the flow of fossil fuels to the United States were ever cut off, the economy would come to a halt.
假如有朝一日，向美国输送石油的渠道被切断，整个国家的国民经济将陷入停滞。
It also raised global concerns about the safety of nuclear power at a time when it has seen a resurgence as an alternative to fossil fuels.
这也让全球重新审视核，这个曾一度被称为化石燃料替代品，安全问题。
A new report by the National Research Council seeks to put a dollar amount on the "hidden" costs of energy produced by burning fossil fuels.
《国家研究委员会》的最新报告认为，通过燃烧化石燃料而产生的能量其“隐性”成本要增加一美元。
Failure would be a blow to the United Nations as the main forum for designing a world economic model less dependent on fossil fuels.
联合国曾倡导一种更少依赖化石燃料的新的世界经济模式，而这次失败将是对这种提议的一击重创。
genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel.
木质相似或同等与榛子树的化石植物的属。
The change to the current arrangement was gradual, new fossil studies suggest, contradicting the long-held idea of a sudden shift.
新化石的研究表明，物种进化到现在的样子是循序渐进的，这违背了长期持有的有关突变的观点。
The archaeologist analyzed the fossil and found it a dinosaurian one .
考古学家通过分析发现那是一个恐龙化石。
So NRG, with its fossil-fuel plants, at least benefits from lower costs as electricity prices fall.
电价下跌时，拥有化石燃料厂的NRG至少会因成本较低仍然能获利。
