fossil
美 [?fɑs(?)l] 
英 [?f?s(?)l]
- n.化石；老人；老古董
- adj.從地下發掘出來的；化石的；屬于舊時代的；陳腐的
- 網絡老頑固；動物化石；動物的化石
詞形變化
復數：fossils 同義詞
英漢雙解
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 兩百多萬年的化石 |
2. |
老人；（尤指）老頑固，老古董an old person, especially one who is unable to accept new ideas or adapt to changes |
英漢解釋
adj. | |
n. | 2. 老頑固,守舊者;習語中保存的舊詞(如 to and fro 中的 fro) |
英英解釋
例句
Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling.
科學家在一塊6700萬年的化石中發現了一條蛇盤繞在恐龍蛋和一只幼仔周圍。
Fossil fuels are, in terms of the energy they store, remarkably inexpensive to get out of the ground and sell.
由于化石燃料儲存能源的方式，使其開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人的語言被尊為語言“化石”，是最古老、最純正的因紐特方言之一。
"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，如果他們在國內使用更多的可再生資源，他們就可以出口更多的化石燃料，這是顯而易見的事實。
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.
如果你是燒別人的石油的受益者，你就稱稱全球變暖是科技進步表現。
But because much of this industry still relies on subsidies to be competitive with fossil fuels, it is still not a true free market.
但由于這個行業在很大程度上仍然依賴津貼去和化石燃料競爭，因此仍然不是一個真正的自由市場。
He said that the climate talks due to conclude in Copenhagen in December were fundamental to whether the world moved away from fossil fuels.
他指出即將于12月在哥本哈根達成協議的氣候大會對于是否在世界范圍內離開化石能源至關重要。
Human beings need to make far more decisions like this: to leave fossil fuels in the ground, and to leave rainforests standing.
人類需要做出更多此類決定：不去開采地層下面的化石燃料，讓雨林自然生長。
Climate scientist can estimate how much of the remaining fossil fuels we can safely burn.
氣候科學家可以測量我們還可以安全地燃燒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.
“那只恐龍很和善，”她一邊在路徑終點處的化石坑里玩，一邊說道。
But it is definitely good news to see at least one Christmas tree lot switching over from fossil fuels to solar power.
但無論如何，有一批圣誕樹放棄了礦物燃料轉而使用太陽能這種清潔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.
換句話說，要對某種古代物種的行為得出明確的結論，只有一種類型的的化石是遠遠不夠的。
The panda is often called a living fossil, having inhabited the planet since the days of the saber-toothed tiger.
熊貓常被稱作活化石，其棲息足跡可追溯到劍齒虎的時代。
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，要想成為真正的低碳的化石能源替代品，核能行業必須在建造核電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.
這一片地形，現在只是湖泊化石沉積礦，被稱為冰川湖密蘇拉。
Instead of being powered by the sun, then, some young sharks seem to run on fossil fuel.
除了依賴陽光來獲得能量以外，一些幼小的鯊魚似乎依存于礦物燃料。
The object, he said, was not to be an alternative for fossil fuels, but "to become a viable replacement. "
目標不是要成為化石燃料的替代，而是“要成為一個可行的替代品。”
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.
如果它恰好被劃分到了燃料補貼的類別，我們將需要研究一下我們自己及其它國家的計劃。
The next big piece of a global-warming-control plan involves learning to be more efficient with the fossil fuels we continue to burn.
控制全球氣候變暖方案的另一個大的方面涉及到如何更有效的利用我們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.
就是我們主要通過燃燒礦物燃料，忙著以每年三百億噸的速度排入空氣的那種氣體。
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.
這個標本是一個大約死于200萬年前的6歲兒童的頭骨和腦模化石。
Simple organisms such as bacteria and alga have been found fossil in rocks more than 3000 m. y. old.
簡單的生物，如細菌和藻類，它們的化石已在三十多億年的巖石中發現。
You are flogging a dead horse trying to persuade him to accept the new concepts-he is absolutely an old fossil.
想勸他接受新思想根本不可能，他決對是個老頑固。
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.
觀測衛星（OCO）的測量數據可以給我們一個指標，以現在我們燃燒石化燃料的速度還能有多久。
the oil field, with its derrick rising from the soil like a shunt to coax the earth's fossil fuel to the surface.
油田和起重機從土壤上升起，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.
一個解決它的途徑就是從化石記錄中尋找證據——現代人的近親到底能做什么？
The data used for China is to emphasize this vital fossil energy component's environmental impact upon a country so thus to the world.
本文用于中國的數據是要強調使用礦物能源的中國對于自身及世界所造成的環境影響。
Instead of finding a "living fossil" identical to an ancient beast, they have found a real fossil identical to a modern one.
他們不是找到了一個與古獸相同的“活化石”，而是找到了一個跟現代獸類相同的真正化石。
In the case of this latest discovery, a fossil attributed to a dinosaur was determined to be a bird.
在最新的發現案例中，一個先前被歸類為恐龍的化石被鑒定為屬于鳥類。
For the first time, we now have a complete fossil record of how much material such a newborn black hole can eat.
現在，我們第一次擁有一個完整的關于像如此新誕生的黑洞能吞噬多少物質的化石記錄。
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.
幾天以后，在該目擊地的附近，化石獵手阿勒邁耶胡·阿斯范（AlemayehuAsfaw）有又發現了一片帶有第一臼齒的兒童頜骨化石。
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.
這么看過去，你就會發現我們只剩下幾十年的，多說100年的化石燃料。
The giant panda is called living fossil and is one of the world most precious endangered animals.
大熊貓是世界上最珍貴的瀕危動物之一，被稱為活化石。
The only way of ensuring that does not happen is to price fossil fuels to cover the cost of the environmental damage they do.
唯一可以確保頁巖開采不受滅門之災的方法是讓化石燃料為其導致的環境污染買單。
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，向美國輸送石油的渠道被切斷，整個國家的國民經濟將陷入停滯。
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.
這也讓全球重新審視核，這個曾一度被稱為化石燃料替代品，安全問題。
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.
《國家研究委員會》的最新報告認為，通過燃燒化石燃料而產生的能量其“隱性”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.
聯合國曾倡導一種更少依賴化石燃料的新的世界經濟模式，而這次失敗將是對這種提議的一擊重創。
genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel.
木質相似或同等與榛子樹的化石植物的屬。
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，物種進化到現在的樣子是循序漸進的，這違背了長期持有的有關突變的觀點。
The archaeologist analyzed the fossil and found it a dinosaurian one .
考古學家通過分析發現那是一個恐龍化石。
So NRG, with its fossil-fuel plants, at least benefits from lower costs as electricity prices fall.
電價下跌時，擁有化石燃料廠的NRG至少會因成本較低仍然能獲利。
