fossil是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

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

变形：

复数：fossils  

完整释义：

n.

1.化石
2.老顽固,守旧者;习语中保存的旧词
3.地下采掘出的石块
4.〔口语〕旧事物,旧制度
5.保守派

adj.

1.从地下发掘出来的;化石的
2.古的
3.属于旧时代的;陈腐的;不合时宜的

例句：

1. 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。

2. 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。

3. 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。

4. 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。

5. 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。

6. "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。

7. 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。

8. 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。