Fossil
['fɒs(ə)l;-sɪl] or ['fɑsl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) 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.
(adj.) characteristic of a fossil .
手打:劳里--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
(a.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
(n.) A substance dug from the earth.
(n.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
(n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
錄入:默多克
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Petrifaction.
琼整理
解釋/意思:
n. the petrified remains of an animal or vegetable found embedded in the strata of the earth's crust: anything antiquated.—adj. dug out of the earth: in the condition of a fossil: antiquated.—adj. Fossilif′erous bearing or containing fossils.—n. Fossilificā′tion the act of becoming fossil.—vs.t. Fossil′ify Foss′ilīse to convert into a fossil.—v.i. to be changed into a stony or fossil state.—ns. Fossilisā′tion a changing into a fossil; Foss′ilism the science of fossils; Foss′ilist one skilled in fossils; Fossilol′ogy Fossil′ogy paleontology.
巴塞洛缪校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Hi, old fossil, cried the man who had first called on him for assistance, did je think we wanted of you to read the bloomin' notis to yourself? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- As early as 1747 he had been interested in geology and had seen specimens of the fossil remains of marine shells from th e strata of the highest parts of the Alleghany Mountains. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Rub the fossil silica to a fine powder and thoroughly mix with the chalk. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Prepared chalk or whiting can be used instead of fossil silica. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Only organic beings of certain classes can be preserved in a fossil condition, at least in any great number. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I said Damascus was an old fossil, and she is. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Dalton, likewise, in Pander and Dalton's work on Fossil Sloths, expressed, in 1821, a similar belief. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Mr. Clift many years ago showed that the fossil mammals from the Australian caves were closely allied to the living marsupials of that continent. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- We mean very much the same thing when we refer to Fossil Forests. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Fossil remains sometimes tend to fill up very wide intervals between existing orders. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- These markings and fossils in the rocks and the rocks themselves are our first historical documents. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But when we call these rocks and the fossils a record and a history, it must not be supposed that there is any sign of an orderly keeping of a record. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At any time some new deposit may reveal fossils that will illuminate this question. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We find fossils in the Eocene of monkeys and lemurs, but of one particular creature we have as yet not a single bone. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At this period organized fossils first appear. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It is all over now; but when I look back, the idea of these venerable fossils skipping forth on a six months' picnic, seems exquisitely refreshing. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
手打:莱曼