fossils
美 [ˈfɑs(ə)l] 
英 [ˈfɒs(ə)l]
- n.化石；老顽固
- adj.从地下发掘出来的；化石的；属于旧时代的；陈腐的
- 网络化石篇；恐龙化石；化石百态
词形变化
复数：fossils 同义词
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
The image of the building can be interpreted as a highly dynamic and powerful body and a crystal unearthed fossils.
大楼的形象可以被解读为一块富有动势的水晶体与一块出土的化石。
"Pesky new fossils. . . sharply at odds with conventional wisdom never seem to cease popping up, " Ruben wrote in his PNAS commentary.
“极新的化石…尖锐地向传统知识体系发起挑战，而且看起来永远不会停止挑战，”鲁本在PNAS上的评论文章里写道。
But, if that was true, why did some of the fossils look like "mistakes" which had failed to change and, for that reason, died out?
可果真如此，为什么有的化石看起来像是上帝的“失误”？它们未能适应变化，也因此而绝迹了。
One of the most unexpected Chinese fossils in Microraptor. It had four feathered limbs and almost certainly could fly.
令人意想不到的中国小盗龙化石，它的四肢长有羽毛，古生物学家断定它肯定可以飞行。
So when fossils with these jaw structures have turned up, it had been assumed that the creatures were eating tough foods too.
因此，当有这些（强壮）颌骨的化石出土时，人们便认为这些生物也是吃较硬的食物。
But, the older age of these Au. sediba fossils raises the possibility of a separate, older lineage from which Homo erectus may have evolved.
但是，古老的南方古猿人化石提出了一种可能——直立人可能是由一种独立血统的物种进化的。
Fossils bear testament to an ocean-covered formative period, although today Tatooine is all but waterless.
化石证明（塔图因）的表面曾经有段时期覆盖着广阔的海洋，然而现在却几乎没有水面。
Talk about an old-growth forest. Newly described fossils push back the appearance of wood by at least 10 million years.
在对上古森林的研究中，新近清理出的化石将木本的出现向前推进了至少一千万年的时间。
It's hoped that this latest find may help to clarify what geological conditions, or series of events, help to produce such pristine fossils.
希望此次最新的发现能帮助弄清此处的地质条件，或者是怎样的一系列事件致使此处能出土这般未受侵蚀的化石遗骸。
Babcock said he planned to Nevada footprint fossils found in these areas to find those behind the footprints of the animal fossils.
巴布科克说，他计划在内华达州发现这些足迹化石的地区寻找留下这些足迹的动物的化石。
Chemical fossils (e. g. alkanes and porphyrins) are often the only evidence for life in rocks of PRECAMBRIAN age.
化学化石（烷烃和卟啉）是前寒武纪地层中生命存在的唯一证据。
The Alamosaurus is one of the most commonly found fossils, except for its skull, an example of which has never been found.
阿拉莫龙是被发现最多的恐龙化石之一，但它的头骨样本却一直没有找到过。
Fossils are plant and animal remains that have been preserved beneath the surface of the earth.
植物和动物化石是已下了地球表面的保留依然存在。
Some ammonite fossils have tooth marks that look as though they were made by huge reptilian predators called mosasaurs.
一些古鹦鹉螺化石有牙齿痕迹，看起来这些痕迹似乎由一种称为沧龙的巨大的肉食性海生爬行动物造成。
These prehistoric wasp cocoons, known as trace fossils among paleontologists, date back 75 million years to what is now Montana.
这些史前黄蜂蜂巢——古生物学家称为遗迹化石——可以追溯到7500万年前的蒙大拿州。
Now, after 150 years of searching for fossils since Darwin, zero transitional fossils have been found of the millions of fossils collected.
从达尔文开始到现在，经过150多年的化石寻找，在数以百万计的采集到的化石中，却没有发现过渡化石。
The fossils date to a period when south China was a large island just north of the equator with a tropical climate .
化石的形成时间可以追溯到中国南方还是赤道附近的一个巨大岛屿的时候，那时中国属于热带海洋气候。
Palaeontologist Richard Owen told him the fossils he had found were of extinct relatives of South American animals living today.
古生物学家理查德·欧文则对他说，他发现的化石是现今生活在南美洲的动物业已灭绝的亲属。
The historical nature of macroevolutionary study involves inferencefrom fossils and DNA rather than direct observation.
宏观进化论研究具有史学性质，它的质料来自化石和DNA，而不是直接观察。
Only a few scattered and fragmentary fossils older than two million years have been argued to belong to the genus.
只有一些分散的、支离破碎的化石有超过200万年的历史，它们被认为是人类的化石。
Igneous rocks do not contain fossils.
火成岩不含化石。
The markings and fossils in the rocks, and the rocks themselves, are the first historical documents.
岩石中的痕迹和化石以及岩石本身是最早的历史证件。
Fossils include the remains and traces of animals and plants which are found naturally embedded in rocks.
化石包括人们发现的天然埋藏在岩石中的动植物遗骸和遗迹。
The rocks themselves bear another kind of evidence--the fossils.
岩石本身还拥有另一种证据——化石。
The abundance and spectacular condition of the fossils have much to do with the peculiar geography of the place.
这些化石数量丰富，得以形成的条件与该处特别的地理位置极其相关。
Attachment into the earth's crust is not the old fossils, attachment into the world of the immortal legend of the sky!
依恋成地壳中的不老化石，依恋成天上人间的不朽传奇！
The discovery of shallow-water fossils indicates that the guyots were once much nearer the surface of the ocean.
浅水化石的发现显示平顶海山曾经离海洋表面更近一些。
This realization provided a big incentive for paleontologists to get out in the field and find fossils older than the Cambrian.
这项体认刺激了古生物学家走入田野，寻找比寒武纪更古老的化石。
The team sliced the fossils in half to reveal a series of dark bands in the shell that, like the rings of a tree, record the organism's age.
研究人员将化石切开，显露出贝壳上的一系列暗纹——就像树干上的年轮一样，这些暗纹表明了个体的年龄。
Fossils found: Modern liverworts are one of the oldest known species of plant, thought to have evolved from algae.
发现的化石：现在的苔类是已知的最古老的一种植物，可能进化自藻类。
Mr. Knecht was searching for fossils near a swamp and found a promising rock outcrop.
耐克特先生在泥沼旁找寻化石时发现了一块感觉会有化石的外露石块。
But time is short: soil erosion from the next rain or dust storms will soon cover up the fossils once more.
但是提供寻找时间很短：在下次大雨或者沙尘暴的土壤冲蚀后，化石就会被掩盖。
Fossils show how the nostrils of ancestral whales moved from the tip of the snout to the top of the head.
化石展现了鲸鱼的鼻孔是如何一步步地从它们祖先长鼻子的末端跑到头顶上去的。
Fossils of trees tell us that the temperature dropped a lot and that the level of the sea dropped as well.
树木的化石告诉我们气温大大地降低了，海平面也降低了。
Nanyang dinosaur egg fossils group known as the Terracotta Army after following the "the ninth largest miracle of the world. "
南阳恐龙蛋化石群被誉为继秦始皇兵马俑之后“世界第九大奇迹”。
Blind snake fossils are nearly nonexistent, so their evolutionary history has been a mystery.
由于盲蛇的化石基本上不存在，所以它们的进化历程还是个谜。
Whatever their culture, Indian tribes deserve to be seen in an evolving historical context, not as living fossils.
不管他们的文化发展到何种程度，我们都应当以进化的历史观看待印第安部落，他们并不是活化石。
Like fossils of whales with legs, Archaeopteryx seemed to capture a moment in a critical evolutionary metamorphosis.
和带有腿部的古鲸类化石一样，始祖鸟化石似乎捕捉到了关键进化形变中的某个瞬间。
These mud layers also excluded oxygen, creating conditions conducive to forming some of the minerals in which fossils are preserved.
这些淤泥层也排除氧气，创造有利条件形成的，其中一些矿物化石得以保存。
The fossils appear to be an early form of seaweed washed up on a beach.
这些化石看上去是一种冲到海滩上海藻的最初轮廓。
The expert found a skull and some fossils of animal skeleton that were extinct in medieval times.
这位专家发现了一个头盖骨和一些中世纪已经绝种的动物骨骼化石。
Most metamorphic rocks have been greatly changed and deformed that any fossils preserved In the origInal rocks will not be recognizable.
绝大多数变质岩曾遭受过剧烈的变化和变形，任何在原岩中保存的化石将因这种后来的变化和变形而无法辨认。
For years people had been looking at these fossils thinking that the feathers were just impressions.
多少年来，人们看着这些化石时，认为这些羽毛不过只是模印罢了。
They were discovered in the tar pits of La Brea one of the richest finds of prehistoric fossils ever unearthed.
这些化石是拉布雷亚的沥青坑中发现的。这是已出土的一批极丰富的史前化石。
